HP Deskjet 720C problem with XP

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Printing in draft worked fine with W98, but since I installed XP everything
is OK if I print in B&W, but if I put any words in colour then the whole page
prints much lighter. Why???
 
Mike
Printer is installed OK and is set as default. Everything works perfectly
except for the minor problem I detailed.
I still have W98 on a second drive and if I boot it up then the problem
disappears and everything works perfectly. The problem only occurs with XP.
Of course the printer is not exactly new, but it has not had a great deal of
use and works perfectly with no problems under W98 and only this minor
irritation under XP.
 
Peter

I don't do 'dual boot'.. if I want two operating systems, I switch drives..
saves any conflict where the OS'es are slugging it out for control of a
device.. no help to you of course..

Somebody with experience of this problem (that or the patience of ten) will
be able to help you better than I can in this instance..

What you may want to consider is getting two removable drive housings, and
just plugging in whichever operating system takes your fancy.. I can't help
but feel that they are better isolated from one another.. the Windows 9x
family always want total control of a system (and generally get it)..
 
Mike
XP and W98 are on separate drives, XP is on NTFS and W98 is FAT32. So if I
want to go back to W98 I have to re-boot from the other drive. There is no
conflict between the two systems and I only have W98 as insurance! Having
said that, I do have another problem that requires me to use W98.

My ISP was Freeserve (dial-up) and I maintained a website on Freeserve using
FTP Explorer. All worked fine. When I moved to XP I also changed to
broadband with another ISP (Homecall). Our course, to get into my website I
had to dial-up Freesreve - but found that no matter what I tried I could not
get into the website. So once a month I boot up W98, dial-up Freeserve and
upload the updates to the website. No-one seems to be able to expalin why I
cannot access the website with dial-up and XP.

Best wishes

Peter
 
Peter

I may have misunderstood.. I thought that you might have a dual boot setup..

Try this.. remove the printer from the configuration and then reboot.. shut
down again, reconnect the printer, and then reboot letting Windows find the
printer and install a driver for it..
 
Will do, thanks, but it may not be for a while - up to my ears in work for
the next couple of weeks and I don't want to foul anything up! The last
crash (only serious crash in 7 years) cost me 5 days to re-install and
recover everything - thanks to XP - but that is another story.
 
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