Very slow printing via wireless to HP 6500E710n-z

[dblevins]

I tried this and it worked ONCE just like most of the suggestions I've been able to find.

I've had my 6500a for about a year and it was fine for about 8-9 months but has slowed down since then to be almost unusable.

Would be nice if the USB and wireless ports could both be active.

[PrintDoc]

USB and wireless CAN be active all at the same time, but not Ethernet and wireless.

[Montani42]

I have written to HP repeatedly about my printer and nothing has ever helped they have suggested. The diagnostics don't work very well either. I am operating my 6500A Plus on a wireless network. It takes sometimes an hour for it to print 10 pages. The diagnostics says it is not connected, yet it prints. The Cisco router is about 4 feet away from it. I will not change my security just for a printer. I use WPA2 security. I can pick up my network from my neighbor's house about 120 feet away, so the signal is very good. The printer will print one line then take a break of up to several minutes. The wireless light is on steady. There are dozens of complaints about these printers on line, yet HP has done nothing about the problem. I have used HP printer for years. The old 890C never failed me and still works. I upgraded to a 970 C and it worked okay except it would not handle card stock like the 890C did. I needed a scanner so I bought an HP6300 and it failed within 7 months. They refunded my money then I added some and bought the 6500A Plus. Each generation of HP printers gets worse about dependablility. My warranty may be expired on it by now, but I have been reporting trouble with it since I got it. It just will not print worth a hoot.

[roelschl]

Experiencing same problem. Worked great wirelessly when my Mac OSx detected wireless printer and installed drivers for me. When I needed to scan, however, I was forced to download software from HP and then connect via USB. Ever since then, printing wirelessly has been a major problem - prints first thing, then afterwards get stuck.

I used the steps mentioned here with my Mac OSx. Not only did this solution not work, but I am no longer able to connect to my printer's internal settings either via 192.168.0.111 or (the new setting) 192.168.1.220. 

Please advise.

[PrintDoc]

It may be your router.  What router are you using?  What version of OS X?

[roelschl]

Leopard. 

linksys e1000

[PrintDoc]

Restart your router by pulling its power cord momentarily.  Let it restart.

Reset the printing system:

- Go to System Preferences > Print & Scan
- Right (or control) click in the rectangle listing your printers and select Reset Printing System.
WARNING - this will delete ALL of your printers!
- Select the plus sign to re-add a printer. Select the Defualt tab on the top of the window. Look for the printer, select it and wait until the "Add" button becomes available. Click it.

[roelschl]

After resetting printer, and then attempting to add a printer, it showed up. Linked it to HP 6500 drivers, but while attempting to print showed "Unable to connect to printer; will retry in 30 seconds...". (sidenote: doesn't retry in 30 seconds).

This happened before - after I changed the IP address of my printer to 1.220.

[PrintDoc]

Make sure your router has updated firmware and is freshly restarted.

Also, reset your printing system again.

[roelschl]

I did restart the router last time. Unplugged and waited for 10 secs. Sorry forgot to mention.

How do I check to see if my router's firmware is updated?