Carriage jam, excessive start-up activities and rapid ink usage during start-up

Hi,
I've had a B110A for over 12 months now and every time I use the printer the following happens:
1) carriage jamming............. multiple times [up to 10 times] before it decides to print
2) Lots of roller movement before printing - forwards, backwards, slow, fast
3) lots of printer head cleaning before printing
This is the first HP product I'm getting really fed up with.
Also I get a message from W7 64 bit that the device is not properly installed and it cannot find a suitable device driver fom windows update
I've tried all the on-line HP solutions to no avail and getting nowhere
I am seriously minded to throw this device in the bin and - perhaps - move to another all-in-one make
Any help would be appreciated

Hi,
I can't answer your first question but for 2 and 3, both are the weak of inkjet printers, they all need to "drink" inks during start up to do many things including clean those print heads. One suggestion is to keep printer ON all the time to save inks but there is a trade off for this.
My suggestion: Go to this site to download driver and application and then reintstall it on your computer. Hope this helps:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/ProductList.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=135&prodTypeId...
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