Connection printer to laptop

I was trying to connect OFFICEJET 6500A printer to laptop with USB cable. The needed software was installed. Yet there was no printing. I have Windows Vista. No changes or upgrades made before. Could it be because I don't have land telephone line and I didn't connect fax?

The lack of phone line and not setting up the fax should not affect printing if you have the correct drivers installed. You may want to download and run HP's Print Diagnostic Utility. I have included the link for this.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=mp-91799-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&...
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Pleae download and run HP Print and Scan Doctor utility which should resolve most of printing issues.
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Hi, Please give printer a FIX IP address, say from 200 to 254 and it will stay. Your other devices (phones, tablets ... ) including computers can use other addresses from 2 to 199 or from 1 to 199. Regards.

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That is not correct sabretooth04,
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We have a HP Officejet 6500 that connects to a laptop vis USB plug. It worked fine for a few weeks, but now anytime the laptop is connected to the office network by ethernet is will not print. Once you unplug the network cable from the laptop it prints fine. The laptop is running windows 7 and we installed the printer using the Windows 7 drivers from here. Please help!

This doesn't make sense. The printer is exhibiting behavior noticed when a network printer is connected to a laptop while the laptop is connected to a VPN. But in this case, neither the printer is connected on a network, not is the laptop connected to a VPN per se.
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