HP Printers

Neil_Jones

That''s an older printer from 2015, you must have had it longer than a few "months".

But anyway, give the Print & Scan Doctor a try from here:
https://support.hp.com/id-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-DeskJet-2130-All-in-One-Printer-series/7174550/model/7174551

If no joy uninstall the entire lot, reboot the machine, unplug the printer and reinstall the latest driver from the above link, then plug it in when it asks you to.

Do not install printer drivers with the printer plugged in, it rarely ever works.

arciere

In addition to what Neil Jones said, sometimes simply changing the USB port forces Windows to look for new drivers or install the device as a 'new' device.

danthemoneysavingman

Dare I suggest you should stop buying HP printers then and go for a better brand ;-)

Robisere

danthemoneysavingman wrote: »

Dare I suggest you should stop buying HP printers then and go for a better brand ;-)

That was not true before, and for a few years after, I bought my C5380, but dan is quite right: HP printers today are not what they were. And I had several before the 5380, the quality is not there now unless you pay a lot of money.

pennypincher2013

Robisere wrote: »

That was not true before, and for a few years after, I bought my C5380, but dan is quite right: HP printers today are not what they were. And I had several before the 5380, the quality is not there now unless you pay a lot of money.

I agree. I had a HP printer for yeeeeeaaaaarrrrsssss. I bought another HP because of the years of quality I had had but hated the new one (had a lot of problems with it). Saying that my sister loves her HP printer and uses it a lot.

Uxb1

This the way the consumer market is moving everywhere - forced to the lowest possible denominator by the general buying public (non techie) obsessed with lowest price at any cost.
No one in the mass consumer buying public seems interested in any form of quality anymore - those few who are can be ignored.
The mass market may well loudly complain when it all goes wrong (low cost airlines and ultra cheap energy suppliers for example) but soon quietly return to buying cheapest (cr*p) again.

HP could have continued to produce high quality stuff - but if no one is going to buy them then they have no business. As ever the good is forced out by the bad.
I'm sure HP do have a commercial arm producing high volume capable commercial grade printers at very high commercial prices.
Furthermore no business can survive by people buying something and then using it unchanged for the next 20 years and never upgrading - the business would simply run out of new customers. Intuit found that in the UK with their Quicken finance package and quit the UK market - and the programs from the early 2000's are still used by people nearly 20 years later.
So all business move to some form of continuing revenue stream in the form of compulsory maintenance requirements requiring special tools (cars and aircraft), essential replacement parts(printer ink) or some brand based desirable 'must have' upgrade(Apple Iphones).
Microsoft Office and Adobe stealthily moving from selling packages outright to selling yearly licences being another example.