HP ENVY Inspire 7200 printing horizontal black streaks

[Noel90]

I have a new printer (ENVY Inspire 7200). It is printing horizontal black streaks instead of the required output. When I print the Print Quality Diagnostic report it comes out perfectly. But when I print anything else, even the Test Page it prints the horizontal black streaks. How can I fix this?

[Anand_Andy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Noel90,

Welcome to the HP Support Community

I understand you are facing a print quality issue with your HP  Envy Inspire 7200 printer. Not to worry I will help you to get a resolution to resolve the issue.

To assist better:

• Are you using genuine HP ink cartridges?
• Does the copy print out the same way? 
• What's the application you are trying to print from? 
• Have you tried printing from a different application or device? 

While you respond to that, let's print a Print Quality Diagnostic page -Post the Print Quality Diagnostic page here so we can help you further. 

You may also refer to this document with steps to fix the " Print Quality Issues" issue applicable to your printer -  Print Quality Issues

 Also, try updating the printer's firmware - HP Printers - Updating or Upgrading Printer Firmware 

Hope this helps! Keep me posted. 

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[Noel90]

Thanks for the reply. The printer is practically new but I checked for updates and there weren’t any. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it. And I also did a smear clean. I printed a test page and it printed cleanly without the ink streaks. So it all seems fine now. Thank you again. 

[Anand_Andy]

 @Noel90,

That's great! Happy to hear that.

If you need further assistance feel free to reach out to us. 

Have a great day ahead!

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