I have an HP Officejet 7510 printer. When I go to print an envelope, the return address is shifted to the right about a half of an inch. Occasionally the return address prints in the correct location, but it is chopped off on the left side. Lately, the colors of the text are all wrong also.
Has anyone else had this problem? Are there any solutions?
Thanks in advance
I know I’ve gotten it to work before, but It was a while ago so I don’t recall any sure-fire tip that would solve your issue. You seem to imply that this is purely a hardware issue, but there are various parameters to tweek in the software and your OS printer set-up configurations that will determine how it prints, so check those.
I’ve got an old Laserjet printer. For return addresses I use Avery type labels which I print off in quantity. For the recipient’s address I print on typing paper and cut and then tape to the envelope.
What colors? Why aren’t you just printing the text in black?
And I don’t have an HP printer now, but I did for ten or twelve years. I print envelopes occasionally. Are you using the manual feed tray?
I can get it to print correctly, but I have to use printer drivers from another printer.
Have you ever wanted to print a logo on your envelopes? It is a common practice in business…
I am using an HP Officejet 7510 - I am loading the envelopes the way I am supposed to…
I’ve Printed envelopes on an HP 2400. I do have to be careful loading the envelope properly, sometimes I have to print the envelope two or three times.
One problem I had printing envelopes on a laser printer was that the heat would partially activate the glue, so the flap would be lightly stuck to the back. Eventually I switched to the type of envelope that is pre-moistened and has a wax paper strip covering the sticky part.
Oh, boy. I have owned a lengthy series of HP Deskjet 3510 printers and, shall we say, printing envelopes is definitely not its long suit.
Many results are pretty darn embarrassing and wind up getting recycled.
A couple of tricks that seem to help on this specific printer:
Make sure that you specify the absolute slowest printing speed possible. For the 3510, that would be photo paper at the highest DPI possible. Things tend to line up better although the ink is a lighter black than you would get than with the fastest print speed possible.
Regarding the situation when envelopes do not load properly:
even though you may be printing only one envelope, load five to ten envelopes in the feeder. Sometimes this has worked near-miracles.
Also notice that as these 3510 printers age, the percentage of messed up printed envelopes increases. Eventually it is no longer worth the trouble of all of the endless fiddling, so I but another used 3510 online with as advertised low miles on the odometer.
Good luck!
I’ve printed hundreds of envelopes. Beginning with an old LaserJet II years ago, to my current HP M201. Printing sizes from #6 reply envelopes to #9, standard #10, and even some big #12 ones.
As Dewey says, you have to watch the glued flaps lest they partially seal. And don’t try window envelopes at all! But otherwise they print fine. They are a bit tricker to feed than regular sheets of paper. Feeding from the paper tray is better than the front slot, especially if you are doing lots of them. And they don’t sit too well in the output hopper – you need to empty that fairly often to keep the envelopes in order.
To say the HP Officejet 7510 is cantankerous is being polite. When I go to print envelopes, I have the problems that I already mentioned. It gets worse though, The printer won’t print borderless on regular paper, only special photo papers, that are not the same sizes that I need to work on, 8½" x 11, 8½" x 14, tabloid, and 13" x 19". Then, when I do try to print borderless, it lays down lots of ink, and scales the document up by 150%. It’s almost as if someone cut out bits of code from different printer drivers and combined those bits of code to make the HP drivers for this printer. I am using the only printer driver for this printer that HP makes.
Thankfully, I will never buy one of these printers again, because HP doesn’t make them anymore.
Then something new has developed. My printer thinks it is out of paper, even though the paper tray is full of paper.
I am going to have it looked at, but it may be time for a new printer.
Officejet Pro, yes–but I don’t do it very often and the first one is usually either upside down (but still mailable) or printed on the wrong side (not mailable).
Laserjet, yes. No problem. There is even a diagram to show the right way to put the envelope into the feed. (The Officejet has one too but it’s in black on black and unreadable. Maybe if you knew Braille. Way to go HP.)
Great question - for years I had an HP Officejet unit. I always had the same problem.
The print preview in MS Word would look perfect, but when I printed it seemed like the entire print area was shifted up and to the left significantly. I also tried the usual options, deleting drivers, reloading etc etc to no avail.
Unfortunately, I have no simple solution. I finally gave up on Word / HP combo and through trial and error created my own envelope template in Powerpoint using text boxes for the address fields. I found in PP it was very easy to drag the text boxes to the correct page location to compensate for the way HP offset the actual print.
The template I created ended up being bigger than my actual envelope and in preview, the text boxes looked like they were shifted toward the lower right corner, but it printed fine. Again, just trial and error until I was happy.
I can’t help you with the colours, I only printed in black.
Last year that printer died and I got a Canon. No problems with that.
I had a black and white HP Laserjet (I think Laserjet 4) in the early 90s. A solid cube about 1 foot per side. It was the best and only genuinely reliable printer I’ve ever owned. It did envelopes just fine, along all manner of paper stock. I miss it every day.
That’s happened to me with different printers. In my case it seems there was some sensor the first sheet of paper had to trip but it was tricky. So I would first put just one sheet in and perfectly situate it* then* put the main stack on top. These printers were kind of cheap. I find that the more “well-appointed” printers don’t have this issue.
Thanks for the great replies guys!
I cleaned every roller I could see, and now the printer is printing again. The envelope problem remains, however.
Since I can print the envelopes correctly, albeit with drivers from another printer, I believe that HP did not do a good job of making the drivers for this printer. I am given to wonder if, I could make a printer driver myself.
Thanks again guys.