I have the HP Designjet 650C. From the front panel the test page prints fine. I installed the latest driver for the unit and attempted to print a test page through Windows XP from the printer properties page. I can tell that it is printing the Windows Print Test Page, but it is printing black ink over the top of everywhere where text appears on the test page. I can see the letters are being printed behind all the black ink. I get this same result when I tried to print a document created in Windows Publisher (document printing but covered in black ink). Not sure what to do. Any help appreciated.
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Print test page all black on Designjet 650C Plotter
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Did it print ok with the old driver? If so roll back to the old one. Not uncommon for newer drivers to cause problems.
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Ahhh in that case I would say it doesn't look good. Did you buy it as is? If so did you have the seller print anything to verify it works befoe purchasing? Aside from that you could try resoring default settings. If that doesn't work you could try changing the ink cartridges. Sounds to me like the main logic board is bad. Not good.
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In that case refer to my first post and try an older driver version, or restore factory defaults. Should be an option in the control panel for that. If you have messed with settings I would restore defaults first.
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