Photosmart 6520 driver compatibility

[Uocjat]

Greetings!

I’m working in the 'handyman' department of a nursing home and we have an old HP Photosmart 6520 printer

unfortunately it's up and died on us

(it'll print but there'll be large areas of the page where's there's a big 'hole' where nothing gets printed, tried replacing ink and cleaning the headers and all that but no luck)

now the thing is we're not technically budgeted to even have a printer even though we use it several times a day for work orders and other documentation and it's only by the grace of our highest boss years ago that we even got this one saving us the trip 2 floors down to the office printer (where we have to sort through everyone else's prints to find our own)

and our IT people have refused us to setup a new one (and we won't be able to install any drivers ourselves) so replacing it with something else is not really an option (and finding a new one of the same model isn't likely to happen either)

so the question is - is there any chance that the drivers for the HP Photosmart 6520 is compatible with any newer/easier to get ahold of models ? or possibly setting up a new printer without drivers / installs all together

[greenturtle]

Hi,

Thanks for using the HP Forums.

There  is an In-OS driver, else you can download and install the FULL feature software from here:

http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-photosmart-6520-e-all-in-one-printer-series/51690...

Just make sure the Operating System is selected correctly, download and install the sofwtare.

You will need to use the specific printer drivers for each printer. i.e. printer driver may not compatible with different printers.

Hope that helps!