SOLUTION to your HP printer going offline and/or constantly disconnecting from the network

[wildanimals]

I have done everything in the "solution" and my printer is offline again.  And I'm angry. What else can I do to fix this awful printer?

[Caitlin56]

It is with great pleasure and a huge amount of gratitude to all of you that I end my tortured tenure on this forum. At a post-holiday sale at BestBuy, I bought a Brother all in one laser printer. It was on sale for $149.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/network-ready-wireless-black-and-white-laser-printer/2904153.p?id=121836...

I cannot tell you the ecstasy of turning my printer on and having it ready to go in 1 minute, as opposed to the 5 minutes or more for the HP printer. And then, I cannot tell you, my brothers and sisters, what miracle then transpires: I leave it on. I go away and come back, I print again. And... it... prints! Unbelievable! It's apparently impossible but it happens! For $149 plus tax I have ended my misery!  (Full disclosure. For some strange reason I decided to buy the warranty, too...)

Seriously, thanks so much to everyone here who has earnestly helped others in this forum. Your solutions were wonderful and many people benefitted. But alas, like the person above, I did not. (and the person above that, and above that...)

One thing I learned that I will pass on: I was wrong in buying an inkjet printer when I do not print that frequently, and when I do, it is a lot of pages. This risks your cartridges drying out between uses. My bad. And then, to boot up, the HP Printer has to clean the heads, every time you restart. Hmmm, I wonder if that's why you have to restart so much? Naw... no company would be that calculating and greedy.

Good luck, my friends. 

[das187]

Caitlin, it was good knowing you.  Mostly because of your advice I was able to get the wireless printer going and keep on going. OK, once in a while it has to be turned off/on, but mostly it's all just fine now because of your careful observations and deductions. And congratulations on finding the right path for yourself. When my wife realizes that her episodes of many, many, many pages, usually double-sided are tough on an inkjet, maybe I'll be able to quote you and talk her into a laser like yours.

Thanks, and farewell! On to greener pastures! (OK, black and white...)

[kapd]

Dr Bob:

Please help.  I do not know enough to totally understand your directions.  I printed the network configuration page as you suggested.

At the top of the paragraph is:  802.11 Wireless

The configuration source is:  DHCP

Default gateway:  192.168.1.1

DNS server:192.168.1.1

What other information do I need, if any, and what do I do next.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

[ariannaluv101]

I am not sure what IP address to put in the first IPv4 or the second one 

[ajs813]

Turn off SNMP management by going to printer propertities, selecting the ports tab, selecting configure port and then uncheck the SNMP Status Enabled box.

[bilalhussain123]

the printer does not work. the orange light which indicates check paper and check print cartridge keeps on flashing.

[tomison]

This solution did not work for me as well as one other.  Am still looking and trying.

[Bluefish44]

The length of this thread--going back to 2010--and the frustration expressed herein are frustrating in and of themselves.

I have become a conspiratorialist on this issue.  Printer companies not only make a killing selling ink at outrageous prices, they make machines apparently designed to fail so that users will buy another one.....which new printer turns out to be as flawed as the prevuious one.  And so much the better for selling advice on how to repair unresponsive machines. 

It would seem the market is ripe for making a printer that works with reasonably priced cartridges.  But that's not the way to make money, is it?  Like drug companies that pay off generic drug makers NOT to sell their products, companies like HP make sure competition doesn't get a foothold.

Where's the DOJ when its needed?

[mamacman]

I don't even know how old this post is, but I just needed to THANK YOU!!  You just made homework bearable again.. although, I no longer will get to count homework as my daily workout, since I no longer have to run up and down the stairs to see if I have printed yet!!