photosmart 7660 and Vista

Q-dog · 04-09-2012

Hi,
I have a hp photosmart 7660 that has produced pretty good bw prints. Recently my hard drive crashed and I am now using the other computer at home which is running Vista instead of XP. Now, there is no 7660 driver for Vista so I am using a hp deskjet 5600 driver. (Found some reccomendation to use this). But I am not so sure about the prints anymore. Has only made two but I get the feeling that the dedicated bw ink cartridge is not used.
Has anyone experience of using 7660 with Vista?
Regards,
Ola

mbisc · 04-09-2012

Are you sure that there is no driver for this printer? You may not need a dedicated HP driver for this , by the way. YMMV, but I recently connected an (ancient) HP photosmart (dont know the model offhand, but I got it circa 2003) printer to my new laptop (running Win7), and rather than using the driver that I had on CD and/or what HP suggested (both of which kept on crashing), I just plugged the printer in while the computer was on, and Microsoft's plug&pray took over, and it is actually working.

I know, surprising outcome for MS products, but have you tried that?

Good luck!