'Ink Drying' Message on OfficeJet Printers

[stestardi]

I just bought an HP OfficeJet 6500A Plus AiO, and I've noticed whenever I print duplex pages, the printer pauses for 15 seconds between the first and second sides of the page while displaying ‘Ink drying, please wait…’. This results in print speeds of around 2 pages per minute.  My Photosmart C6100 has no such delay, and as a result prints much faster.

I have noticed similar behavior on other OfficeJets.  Is this normal, and is there a way to disable it?  Why would an OfficeJet, which is targeted at office customers, have slower print speeds than a comparable Photosmart?

Steve

[Bob_Headrick]

Some of the printer models with duplexers have an automatic humidity sensor that adjusts the dry time, others do not.  You can adjust the dry time in the "advanced" tab on your driver.

[stestardi]

Thanks, Bob.  Unfortunately my driver has no advanced tab.  Any other ideas?

[Bob_Headrick]

What operating system?

[stestardi]

Vista

[stestardi]

Bob,

Have you had a chance to look into this?  Would like to understand why my driver doesn't have an option to adjust dry time.

Thanks.

Steve

[Bob_Headrick]

Sorry about that, this slipped by.  I am downloading the Vista driver now and will see what I can see.

[stestardi]

Interestingly, I just purchased a Photosmart Premium C410a, and its driver has the same dry time options as on your OfficeJet 6500 E709a.

What OS are you running?

Steve

[Bob_Headrick]

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@stestardi wrote:

Interestingly, I just purchased a Photosmart Premium C410a, and its driver has the same dry time options as on your OfficeJet 6500 E709a.

What OS are you running?  [snip]

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I am using Windows 7 x64.  I have a VMware Vista x64 machine that I downloaded the Vista full featured driver from here, it had similar features to the one you have.  Next I tried this one (Version 14.0) and it has the advanced tab and the settings you are looking for.  This is for the e709n rather than the e710n but I would bet the driver is compatible. (I currently do not have either a e709n or e710n to test, but I did load both drivers and used them to print to my e309a, they both worked fine.) You may need to fool the installer to allow installing the e709n driver if it does not find one connected.  You should be able to select "connect later" or some such, then go to the Printers directory, Add a Printer, select the same port as your e710n then select the Officejet e709n driver.

[stestardi]

Thanks, Bob.

Any idea why the difference in driver functionality?  Unfortunately the E709 drivers do not have a feature to turn off the top/bottom margin increase when duplex printing which I also would like.

Finally, any idea why my PhotoSmart C6150 didn't have the ink drying pause while duplexing, but all new printers seem to have it (effectively cutting their duplexing speed by75%)?

Thanks.

Steve