Printer Help and Support

HP (Hewlett-Packard) is one of the largest company which manufacturing Printers, personal computing device, enterprise servers, related storage devices as well as other imaging products. Printer gives your hard copy print out in test of graphic format. In 1976 the inkjet printer was invent, but very often consumers can able to survive that one. In 1988 hewlett-Parkard's release of the DeskJet inkjet printer, which was very affordable to mostly consumer.

There are some type of printer which manufactured by HP :

    * Color inkjet all in one printer
    * laser jet printer
    * Color laser jet printer
    * Photosmart printer

If you are planning to buy a HP printer for home or business, then you should have good online hp printer support services and also some knowledge about the HP printer like:

How many pages do you print in a per day or month? If you want those printer which is gives you more printout in very less time, then you should go with the HP Laserjet printer series. HP Laserjet printer can able to printing fast. Because it has it's own processor, Memory (Printer RAM) and lots of page holding facility. It is available in market that its specification. Which printer gives you more page in per minute, you can choose that one.  

How often do you print in color? It is very important question because color printer ink cartridge is very expensive to buy rather then black ink cartridge.

Do you need Photo-quality? If you are create your own marketing advertisements and you expect better photo-quality, then you should go with HP Photosmart printer. Either you use inkjet photo smart printer or laserjet photo smart printer.

How many people use your printer? If your printer use by several user continuously, then you should need a network printer. It has inbuilt network interface. You can connect it into the your network and just shard it. 

There are some basic HP Printer troubleshooting tips for each Hp Laserjet printer model which help you lot. If your printer getting error code like:

Error code 02: It is related to printer Warm up issues. If you are facing this check about your I/O cable for loose connection.

Error code 11: It is simple Out of paper issue. You should need to insert the more paper in printer paper tray.

Error code 14: It you are getting this error message then you should check about Absence of toner cartridge.

Error code 22: It means some printer Configuration settings is incorrect.

Error code 30: It shows Postscript firmware problem.

Error code 40: usually means that there is a disconnection between data transferring for computer to printer.

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How to network two computers to same printer?

While going about connecting 2 computers to one printer, you need to follow a few steps to ensure the process is smooth and hassle-free. Here we outline some of these basic steps.

Connection: To be able to connect both computers to a single printer you need to setup printer on "client" PC:
    * Connect printer to "client" PC and install it. This way all required software and drivers are installed.
    * Reconnect to "host" PC
    * Select "Properties" by right clicking
    * Select "shared"
    * In "client" PC:
    * Select "My Network Places" or "Network Neighborhood"
    * Printer appears as "shared"
    * Double click on the printer to install it
    * The same printer is now installed twice - as local and network printer
    * If always using network printer, set it as "default"

Set up a LAN:

    * To be able to perform a 2 pc 1 printer connection, you first need to set up a LAN or a Local Area Network. To do this, follow these instructions:
    * You could either use a network adapter in your home office OR
    * To view the status of the network connection, you need to
    * Double click on Network Connections
    * Right click on the particular LAN
    * Select Status option
    * You could also right click on the LAN, click on Properties and then select the "Show icon in taskbar notification area when connected" checkbox. This will enable you to automatically view the status in the taskbar area.

Get a printer switch: Printer switches enable you to connect 2 computers to one printer. They come in a variety of types such as auto printer switch and parallel printer switch. There are several vendors available online who provide these switches at good discounts.

Crossover cable: You can easily get a crossover cable from your local computer store to connect your computers to your printer. After that you can network and open the desired printer and enable it to be shared between both computers.

Print server: A print server enables you to print simultaneously from two computers at the same time. However you need to ensure you have a router (which will act as a DHCP server). You also need to make sure that it's not a multifunctional printer you're working with since most print servers are not able to work with such kinds of printers. In case you do not have a router, you could purchase a PSUS4 print server, then assign static IP on the network cards and print server.

No network ports present: In case there are no network ports present, then you can use either USB or parallel port adapters for your purpose.

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