Can't Get to Printing Preferences in Vista for Hp officejet 6110

[bman in co]

My Hp Officejet 6110 works fine but when I try to change my printing
preferences the dialogue box pops up and disappears so fast I can't even read
it. I can find no way to change any of my print settings, even when printing
and I hit the properties button, same thing everytime.

 

[R. Berger]

My Hp Officejet 6110 works fine but when I try to change myprintingpreferencesthe dialogue box pops up and disappears so fast I can't even read
it.  I can find no way to change any of my print settings, even whenprinting
and I hit the properties button, same thing everytime.

I've had similar problems with my HP DeskJet 6127. Can't get to
printer preferences. Did you ever find a way around this?

roy

 

[bman in co]

nope, can't figure it out

HP sucks, others I have talked to can't get their printers to work with
vista at all and had to buy new ones, not HP's I hope. It it hard to believe
that this is not intentional.

 

[Dave]

My HP 6110 works ok with Vista Home Premium, and I don't have that problem.

You might try deleting the printer in Start - Printers
and then adding it again.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

My HP psc 950 (four years old) has worked with Vista since day one of the
Vista Beta in 2005. That includes scanning too.

 

[Dave]

Ed,

I answered your post to Richard before I saw this one.

I have a 2.5 year old Gateway FX510 desktop. It came with XP Media Center
Edition. 13 months ago I did an upgrade to Vista Home Premium. I tried to
reinstall the HP Director software, only to discover it would not run, and
then found that HP didn't have an updated version. However the printer
works fine for me using the Vista drivers.

Since Home Premium doesn't come with Windows Fax & Scan, I purchased VueScan
for my scanning needs. I don't fax much, so I can do that manually.

I don't recall doing anything special to get it to work.... it just worked.
I have it plugged into a D-Link 7 port hub (powered). I share this printer,
and my wife prints to it, using her laptop (also with Vista Home Prem.).

Last month's Windows Update (2/15) did something to my computer, and I
ended up doing a clean install of Vista. The printer was recognized and set
up correctly, automatically. I don't recall doing any setup to it, other
than sharing it.

I would unplug it, remove it from Printers, reboot, and plug it back in.
You might try other USB ports.