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My printer is only a month old. The first week I had it, it started to print from  the photo tray despite all settings correct. I chatted with support and we ended up resetting the printer which included powering off the printer for a set length of time, removing the power cable for a set time and reattaching the cable in sequence. 

I have the same problem again. I chatted and talked with support but they didn't know of any such reset sequence to put things back right. Like I said above , the reset did fix the previous problem and the sequence of steps we specific and involved the power cable and the on/off switch on the printer. I suspect the problem was caused by my power bar. The printer is now in its own wall socket. 

I would appreciate any help.

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I have managed to fix this problem.

 

Then very first step was to unplug the printer while it was online and let it sit for 2 hours.

 

1 - I started Mozilla Thunderbird Email and select an email with no attachments.

2- print... , properties ...... page/quality and set the paper source from "Photo" to main tray and set the media as" Plain Paper".

3- The job printed properly . Then I closed the email program.

4- started Thunderbird email again and when i got down to page/quality, the main tray was again set to photo and the media to plain paper.

5- Again, I repeated step 2 bit once again the job would have printed on photo papaer from the photo tray if i had not changed these two setting.

6- Once again I started THunderbird Email , selected an email with no attachments and repeated step 2 but the paper source was already set to Main Tray and the Media was set to Pain Paper.  PROBLEM RESOLVED.

 

 

I would like to thank H.P. Employee " Rainbow 23 "  who worked closely with me to fix this problem.

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Hi @Newfie100,

 

Thanks for replying.

 

Glad to hear you got it working. If you need any assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to reach out to us again. Take care!

 

If you wish to help others looking for the same solution as you've found, mark the post as Accepted Solution.

If you wish to show appreciation for my effort, please click the Thumbs up icon at the bottom of my comment.

 

And I Hope you have a good day, Ahead.

 

Regards,

Jeet_Singh
I am an HP Employee

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