I have 2 HP printers that aren't working in different ways.

[DaveLeno1]

When I try to print an image from an email, the Officejet 5222 goes nuts. It quickly sends paper through with a line or 2 of garbage (I think of it as swear words you'd see in a comic, e.g. w[ergn sfodi s-d[foig a[oidg ]z%$ *! ).

It will quickly spit out paper like this until I reach the printer to cancel printing.  This is the latest problem but it also will give me error messages that a doc could not be printed because  of an error without any further info.

I'm printing from a Windows 10 HP 15t-dy100 laptop if that matters.

Then there's the Officejet 6500A Plus E710 which returns a message that the printer is in an error state. When I reset it, it usually comes up as offline. It's mostly always offline. HP has a ton of S/W between me and the printer and it mostly just garbles, confuses, and sends me down dead ends. The weird part about this printer situation is once in a while, after giving me the error message, if I don't try to resolve it, it will print the doc out, somtimes hours later. I've actually had it wake me in the night doing that.

I just want to be able to print emails, Word docs, PDFs, and photos and be able to scan docs (that's a whole other nightmare). It doesn't seem like it should be that hard. I actually designed an interface board for a Versatec printer to interface it to a 24 bit special purpose Raytheon computer in the '70s (controlling the HAWK missile battery which I was surprised to learn has been dug out of mothballs and is being used by Ukraine). I Developed the driver for it and away it went. I realize that was extremely basic but come on, it's not rocket science!