OfficeJet Pro K8600 - my print quality is mediocre... some colors are missing.

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• OfficeJet Pro K8600: Officejet Pro k8600 - cannot print

  Without warning, my printer does not print. It captures no paper. Error Msgs alternate between paper jam and load paper. I checked carefully for a paper jam and to blow off the dust, compressed air system. I tried online support - no help. Could not find a phone number to call and does not repair in my area centers. Any suggestions?

  Hello @Grammy72,

  Welcome to the Forums of HP Support!

  I understand that you are having problems of paper when you try to print from your computer Windows 8.1 for your HP Officejet Pro K8600 printer. Please include in your message that you have already done all the troubleshooting steps that are available on our Web site.

  At this point, please can I you look at the two support documents. Be sure just to what action has been forgotten.

  • "Out of paper" Message
  • Message "paper jam".

  If all the steps have been completed without result, I would recommend reaching out to the Technical Support queue by phone to explore the additional hardware options.

  HP Technical Support can be reached at the: 800-474-6836.

  If you do not live in the United States / Canada region, please click the link below to get help from your region number.

  Worldwide contact HP

  I wish you good luck going forward with this!

• OfficeJet Pro 8500 a (A910a): [HP Officejet Pro 8500 a] print issue, especially in black color

  Hello

  My HP Officejet Pro 8500 printer all-in-One (A910a) almost does print in black color more and some colors have a few lines. You can view the Diagnostic Self Test Pages I printed here.

  Hi @CuiZinieR,

  Welcome to the Forums of HP Support!

• You are using windows 7, how can I get my Officejet Pro K8600 print on paper 13 x 19?

  I bought a laptop with Windows 7. Now I can't get my Officejet Pro K8600 to print correctly on paper 13 x 19. It prints on paper 13 x 19, but everything is 8.5 x 11 in size. I click on print, click Properties, change the Super B 13 x 19 paper, press ok, watch box paper 13 x 19 with images by filling out the document, I click ok to print and it prints the image 8.5 x 11 in size on paper 13 x 19 rather than fill the paper 13 x 19. I did not have this problem (and still haven't) with my old laptop with XP. It is the operating system or is it a bad setting in the properties? I tried to compare the property settings in both computers, but I can't find any differences. I don't think it's the driver... Please help!

  Hello HW,.

  Try this: go to devices and printers and right click on the of K8600 Officejet Pro and click on printer properties. Go to the Advanced tab and click on the button called Print Processor. Select Winprint. Try another print and see if it works now. If you still see the same question to see if there is an option of scaling in the print dialog in the application you are printing from.

• OfficeJet pro k8600: why my printer print after each letter printing

  Why my printer print after each print format appromitate letter of 30mm at the top of page new Board every time.

  N N N N N N N

  Hi @mohitarnold,

  Welcome to the Forums of HP Support! I see that you are facing some print quality problems with your HP Officejet Pro K8600. To better help you, please let me the following information:

  1. what program you print to depart from or arrive the fact in all programs, email, Notepad, etc. ?

  2. have you recently made any changes to the Windows 7 computer?

  3. How did you install the software and drivers for your K8600 JO?

  I would like as begin you printing HP and doctor Scan > www.hp.com/go/tools

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  What is the PSDR, please leave me with the requested information so that we can continue to troubleshoot.

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• HP Officejet Pro K8600: HP Officejet Pro K8600 - is no longer connected, print - driver lost?

  DISCLAIMER: I understand that it is a large display. Please, please read it carefully before suggesting the diagnosis. While I'm not an advanced programmer, I am very computer and am usually able to solve minor to somewhat advanced questions. However, I've exhausted my knowledge and my skills to no vail here...

  CLARIFICATION:

  I use a processor 3 GHz Intel i7, 12 GB of RAM on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit (Service Pack 1) OS. My printer is a HP Officejet Pro K8600 - it is NOT an all-in-one printer. This is a printer large format, single tray. I have Avast Home Free edition runs on the PC as well as SBSD and widows firewall ACTIVE. In my Panel "Devices and printers", it also shows that I have the following 'printers' installed: Adobe PDF (copy1), Fax, Microsoft XPS Document Writer, PrinterShare, Quickbooks PDF Converter, QuickBooks PDF Converter 3.0 and send to OneNote 2010. Windows Update has been on 'Manual' which allows me to choose which updates to install and when. However, at some point during this troubleshooting - I for 'auto' changed, so I don't think there are a few updates to Windows that has been installed automatically.

  Just for additional notation, I also use a double 4 operated by two NVIDIA graphics cards monitor display monitor. Not that it should be any problem because I use this configuration for some time. However, I was surprised to find that some software does NOT support more than two monitors. Very strange.

  SCENARIO:

  This printer is about 6 years old. It has been a great printer and I rarely had problems with it apart from maintaining normal jet ink and minor errors. I have been successfully connected to the current computer at least 2 years. Once again, never problems. The printer is connected directly to the computer using a USB standard cord - less than 12 feet long. Printer is also shared on the home network and I can usually print using my laptop in the network without any problems. Printer is on a shelf on the wall above my workstation.

  QUESTION:

  PART A: Two days ago, I was about to print a simple, small Photoshop CS3 PDF image. It is a daily task - size of the document was less than 11MB. The printer has not initialized as usual - I noticed that the light flickered.  But the printer is trying to print (print head not move not, does not feeding paper, no noises). So I tried to follow the standard troubleshooting methods by which is obvious - restart the printer. The flashing light has not disappeared. I have checked for jams, reinstall the carttridges and opened and closed all the doors - and then restarted the printer again. I also restarted my PC at the moment. Aware of the printer light continues to blink. I then the 'X' button on the printer while the printer power off and power it back up. This (I believe) ran a diagnostic standard and print a test page. Everything seemed normal on the print. Power led is no longer flashing. I have Open the printer only and cancelled all documents -removed something that was there. Schecked double for all other printers (I) with the documents in the respective queues - nothing found. Also noticed that the printer status is "Offline."

  PART B: Now, I decided to print a simple Word document. This time the printer did nothing. No sounds, no lights flashing and no movement of the print head. I decided that I was going to unplug the USB from the PC and plug it into another USB port. This caused Windows to try to 'install' the printer drivers - I assumed that they would be fair here. However, I got the following popup status of driver-

  

  This, of course I worry about. Again, I have anoccupant to print a regular Word document. Printer has not responded at all. So I checked the devices Panel and printers and found that the printer has been listed but showing "status: troubleshooting needs. I right clicked on the printer icon and clicked on "Troubleshooting". Then I got this-

  

  Then I clicked "Apply this correction" - which was not a "fix." Simply, she re-launched Windows in order to install the driver. Which resulted in the same popup indicating the status of driver install - but have not installed. I checked the policies of the printer to make sure that no documents were persistent. There is no document for any printer listed.

  PART c: Now, I go to support and download the section of the HP Web site for my printer model. I have download the latest package of driver/software for my version of Windows. Once the software installation begins, it ends up by asked me to unplug the USB for my printer. I did it. Then later in the software/driver installation, it asked me to re - connect the USB port of the printer to the computer. I did it. Installation window has detected the printer, and a second course contextual view displayed between PC and printer - steps 1-6. The process seems to hang on step "5 of 6". Then I finally get it.

  

  The 'help' was not very helpful here. Basically 3 options:

  1. Make sure the device is connected to your computer and turned on. Click on the "< back"="" button="" to="" try="">(I tried this - even doesn't have a result). "
  1. If the configuration of the device does not complete, some hidden configuration commands will be over. Click on the "< back"="" button="" the="" wait="" a="" few="" minutes="" for="" the="" device="" setup="" to="">(also tried - waited 10 minutes - still not)."
  1. If the problem persists, check the troubleshooting section in the Readme file, located on the CD-ROM. (printer is 6 years old. I don't have the CD. At installation of this download. If it was not very useful).

  So I you click on "next >" and received a message that basically says that the installation was a failure and I should try again or contact support manufacturing.

  PART D: I found an article on the forum to Support HP here: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printer-All-in-One-Install-Setup/Officejet-Pro-8600-driver-not-installi... I followed BharathKumarK's long troubleshooting suggestion. did everything exactly as shown. No problem is. This does not solve my problem. I again ran MSCONFIG and passed my services and selections start back as they were before this troubleshooting. Once again, restarted my PC and started searching on Google and HP for more responses. Printer was still in "Troubleshooting" in Control Panel devices and printers (as in part B above).

  PART e: I found an article on the Forum of Support HP, who suggested to use the "HP Print and Scan Doctor" to solve problems. I have downloaded and installed on my PC. The program Ran. It considers the K8600 printer and I clicked to move forward. Then I get this message-

  

  I know by the failure of installation described in the PART C it was true - thank you for what is obvious. At this point I quit a job for a whole day solve this printer. Then... of course I click on 'Get Installer' -knowing full well it's doing nothing, most I've tried to do. Yet, I'm still as advised. Download the driver/software package. Followed the steps - even ONCE got to 5 from step 6 and hook - finally showing all the same mistakes as in PART C.

  PART f: now I'm suspecting there may be cord issues. I have a HP Officejet H470 in the closet. I have it pick up and borrow the very short USB cord of this printer. It is a USB cable that is supplied with this printer. I have disconnected the K8600 current USB cord and plug the borrowed cord -it was too short to reach my office upstairs. So I put on my laptop. It is also a processor 2 GHz Intel i3, 6 GB of RAM on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit (Service Pack 1) OS. I have connected the printer to the laptop. Open an regular Word document and print. It successfully to print! I thought I had found the question - faulty USB cord! # Because of the way that the printer is on the wall and the cord is so short, I had to unplug the laptop USB to the laptop. Now, I come back and try printing another document I needed - I think that it was something from the internet. I pick up the laptop and Plug the printer into the laptop. Send the print job, printer sounds like it is about to start printing and then... nothing. The printer power light begins to blink. So I tried the same basic troubleshooting - restart the printer, by restarting the laptop... etc. I have to unplug the printer from the laptop. Finally, received the fire of the printer goes in now the key 'X' on the printer while the power on the bike. For the moment no diagnosis is printed by the way. Now I Plug the USB into the laptop. Windows picks it up and tries to install the drivers... as in PART B above. Now I'm back in the vicious circle of the same question on the laptop troubleshooting. Which I followed the PART Aand PART B , PART C... .the everything with the same failure.

  PART g: Now I'm frustrated beyond comprehension. It's day 2 of troubleshooting! I need to get back to work. I decided to leave the only K8600. I have to turn on the HP Officejet H470 mobile printer. I plug in the laptop - as I still need to print a working document. Windows picked it up and I got the Windows Installer popup of pilots. Got EVEN COULD not install driver message described in PART B!

  BOTTOM LINE:

  I need a printer. Printers that I have in my office are now overpriced paperweight. I don't know if it's printer problem, cord issue, Windows 7 problem or USB port problem... but I need help. So I spent all the morning writing this as detailed as possible, in an effort to last stitch to beg for help! Someone at - it still reading this? I swore if someone suggests one of the steps I've already tried... I think I'll hit the roof!

  Thank you

  Benji

  @John_Getzke

  Your last solution doesn't work anymore. HOWEVER... I have found the solution in an IMPROBABLE PLACE!

  Was this morning in Microsoft Excel and clicking on enter far into my stats in morning, and strictly out of habit, I clicked to print. It gave me an error message that I had never seen. (photo here)

  

  So I googled "error message 'The domain Active Directory Service is currently unavailable'". I came across a Microsoft support forum: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/when-searching-for-a-printer-i-get-error-the/e3681f75-93bc-4779-88e2-dd0e5192202a

  Someone on this forum (several entries) suggested something on Notepad.

  I thought that "it IS STUPID! IT DOES NOT WORK! "But what the 7734... I'll try it anyway... IT WORKED!

  SOLUTION

  1. open Notepad.

  2. under file > print.

  3. click on "add a printer".

  4. a pop-up window displays and asks if you want to set up a LOCAL or NETWORK printer. (Mine was LOCAL)

  5. Select the printer port (mine was USB001 (virtual printer to USB port))

  6. you continue and gives you choices for type of printer on the left (IE. HP, DELL, BROTHER, etc..) (Mine was HP)

  7. on the right, you select the model of your printer. (Mine was HP Officejet Pro K8600)

  8. click Next, and a prompt QUICKLY introduced me with (over quickly) status bar and went to options "Printer Name" and "printer sharing."

  9. the last prompt allows you to "print a test page.

  I clicked on the test page printed and was SUPER HAPPY here my printer immediately start printing! Boxes printing and notebook. I went back to my Excel file. Clicked on print and VOILA! Print like a charm!

  I really hope this helps someone else out there. I wish I could tell you why it works or what was stopping Windows and HP of the installation of the printer, but at this point, I really don't care. I CAN PRINT AGAIN!

  Thank you John for trying to help with this problem!

• Cyan fails from one page to another on Officejet Pro K8600

  I have an Officejet Pro K8600, installed on XP. A nearly full cyan stopped working in the middle of printing from one page to the other - tried all the patches.  No msg error - says all cartridges are full. Buy HP new cartridge, always did the same thing. I uninstalled and reinstalled this morning. First page of diagnostics showed labour cyan on the first block, broken on the second line. Then would not work again at all. Do I need a new print head? The health of the print head shows that both are OK. Thank you! Very frustrating. It's a good printer!

  The Officejet Pro K8600 has ink cartridges that are separated from the print head Assembly.  The pipes of the unit ink cartridges in the front lower left of the printer internal for the print heads.  With this type of printing mechanism, a print quality problem, for example a missing color, usually resides in the printheads of the unit.

  I'll try to run 3 levels of the print head cleaning utility in the part of the Toolbox of the software for this printer.  Thus, there is a document with steps to help solve a problem of print quality in the K8600.  The document can be accessed here.

  Let me know how it goes.

• HP Officejet Pro K8600: Hp Soloutionn Center

  Until I updated to Windows 10 I was always able to see my Scanjet G4050 and Officejet Pro K8600 on the Center soloution allowing me to display the printer Toolbox. However, Windows 10 post I recently lost all access to the printer. I tried to reinstall all the software for the printer, but the dvd does not work on windows 10. The printer and scanner both work fine, but I would really like to find a way to get the Solution Center to recognize my printer.

  I have a printer HP laserjet Pro 200 which I could never find a way of listening through the Solution Center.

  Is there anyway I can get the solutions Center to see all my HP devices?

  Thank you there

  Hello

  The drive is not designed for Windows 10 as it ws made be communicated before the operating system.

  Download and follow the below tool, it will retrieve the latest version of the Windows 10 software for your devicesm then you should be able to use the HP Solution Center:

  http://ftp.HP.com/pub/softlib/software13/COL50403/MP-150580-2/hppiw.exe

  Kind regards

  Shlomi

• OfficeJet Pro K8600 install SBS2003

  What drivers?

  I had an HP 1220C printer, at the same time, connect to the DLink, fixed IP print server.   Which replaces with OfficeJet Pro K8600, USB, same DLink, IP and network.

  The CD is not drivers for SBS2003.  HP Web site has drivers for Windows Server 2003, I have downloaded and run the EXE file, screen says configuration, about five steps, no errors, no prompt to connect, etc..  If I add printers, I see K8600 HP has been added to the list, but no driver installed.  I can see all the files I downloaded and extracted, but where are the pilots?  Should which driver I use on the SBS2003?  XP?  Vista?  DOT?  Although HP offers http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=1005&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3434447 (consumer products?) pilots say that they do not support Windows Server 2003.  I'm trying to relieve on manually, but which driver?

  Turns out be the DLink print server - he had a USB1 instead of USB2 port.

• My HP Officejet Pro 8600 cannot print from my MacBook Air

  Hello

  My HP Officejet Pro 8600 cannot print from my MacBook Air. It keeps on showing "the printer is not connected", but the display on the printer connected. I often reset the printer "EVERY TIME" I want to use. I also tried to turn off my laptop and printer several times before printing. If I'm lucky, it will work maybe for one or two prints. If no luck then I have to reset everything again. Sometimes I reset the printer, the printer is not displayed on my selection.

  Hello boojoo1tw,

  Welcome to the HP Forums!

  I understand that you are unable to print most of the time with your Officejet 8600. How is the printer connected? USB or wireless? What is your operating system on your Mac computer? Click here to find out.

  If your wireless printer, then I recommend the award of an 'IP address' by following this HP document on printer does not maintain the wireless connection.

  Please post your results, I'll be looking forward to hear from you.

• HP Officejet Pro 8000 Wireless: Download for Officejet Pro 8000 Wireless printer driver

  I've been looking for a printer driver download for my HP Officejet Pro 8000 Wireless printer, but unable to find one and the web page keeps just leading me in circles.  I'm under IE 9.0 and Windows 7 Professional.  Could you give a link to download the driver?

  See this:

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c02266980

  or

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c02693964

• How can I set up my new Officejet Pro 8600 more printing on paper photo 4 x 6?

  How can I set up my new Officejet Pro 8600 more printing on paper photo 4 x 6?  I'm running on Windows 7 64 bit.

  It's strange.  Looks like you have a second paper tray and put it to the default tray.  The second paper tray only supports the types of paper that show on your list.  It's strange because unless you have purchased a second tray paper, plus model has one.  Does only the high-end model.  Other than that, only certain types of media can be duplex, so if you have double-sided printing, it can limit the selection.  I'll watch what else could be the cause and get back to you.

• OfficeJet Pro L7590 can print but not scan

  My printer (Officejet Pro L7590) can print and copy correctly, but the scan function - that has worked well at the same time - has just up and stop working, and my attempts to solve the problem simply go round.

  • When I try to scan using the button start scan on the printer, I get an error message saying 'no scan options '.
  • When I try to open the solution Center, it is said that he cannot run because the installation is not complete.
  • Uninstalling and reinstalling the software (latest version, which is three years, downloaded from the HP website) do not work. The software seems to go through the process of installation very well, but crashes on the stage finish ("product configuration"). Eventually it times out.
  • Once in this case, the installer downloads a supposed solution of the HP Web site. He told me that it is fixing the problem and asks me to restart the computer, saying it will continue after the restart. After I restart, the procedure does not continue, and the problem is not fixed - all the behaviors I describe above are still occurring.
  • Also downloaded one file with other solutions supposed to this question. They do not work. For the most part, they are variations on "run the setup software again", preceded by various other measures. However, when I do this, it re-not installing - it is a completely different window, and if I try to go back to the installation procedure, he refuses, telling me the software is already installed. (And yet when I try to open the solution Center, he always tells me it is not installed.)
  • Tonight is the third time I tried to troubleshoot it. On three occasions, I just gave up in frustration after a few variations of the cover above.
  • I'm this end =><= to="" going="" all="" office="" space="" on="" this="" printer="" and="" getting="" a="" new="" one="" based="" on="" the="" abhp="" principle="" -="">Anything But HP.

  I can't emphasize enough that it worked in the past and this basis still printing very well (with the exception of some strange problems with certain PDF files), but scanning has broken since my last round of hardware upgrades and refuses to be fixed.

  It's incredibly frustrating. Someone just make it work with minimal BS, as he has done before.

  I realize, this is a follow up very, very late, but apparently the problem has something to do with the 32-bit version of Windows 7 running. I recently installed the 64 bit version and now have no problem with any HP software.

  Well, except that sometimes he asked my permission to do an update then fails to actually download the update (I get the same "could not connect to content url" error message that many others reported here).

  Other than that, which is slightly annoying, but doesn't really affect what anyone, everything works fine now.

• HP OfficeJet Pro 8600, HP printer wizard installs not when the software is installed from the CD

  HP Officejet Pro 8600 e printer all in one

  Windows 7

  I had Assistant printer installed and working on my computer at least a year, then there was an update and it no longer works.

  I uninstalled the device and the software and reinstalled both on-site and directly from the CD without success.

  The only error I get is when I start everything first install it and there is a red "x" next to the update of windows.

  The installation process ends, the computer will recognize the printer and I am able to print but I have no control any function because none of these options in the wizard for the printer are turned on.  They are all grayed out.   The most important thing I need is the archiving of received faxes.

  Someone else in my family had the same problem, but was able to reinstall from the Web site and doesn't have any more problems.

  Thanks for any help.

  Hi liluno18,

  I want to help you with this question. I send you this link to the Microsoft forum on how to fix the red X on windows update. Follow the response from Joseph M.

  So I suggest you do a complete uninstall software of the JO 8600 and reinstalling the software once you have windows update works again.

  Let me know if you need help, I would be happy to help you.

• HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus: HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus printer-

  HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus printer-

  Tried to copy both sides of a vehicle using ADF permit; paper too small (stupid user!); he copied the first side successfully. Now, I can't find the input document! How can I remove paper (which I can't find) which was too small for the auto feed?  It is not in the duplex unit, either.

  Hi @Dick_27,

  Welcome to the HP Forums!

  I appreciate that you try to remove the paper in your printer more HP Officejet 8600. I'm sorry to hear that, but happy to help!

  Please have a look through this guide, A display of the "Paper jam" error on the HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-all-in-one printer series.

  As well as this guide. The ADF (ADF) documents didn't pick up paper.

  I hope that these guides are useful and have a nice day!