HP Color Laserjet 2500 printer

I have a HP 2500 Color laserjet printer that will not print in color. New color cartridges, will do color for a test page, worked fine with Win XP, new HP computer with Win 7 and it will not print in color from the computer. Think I have the right drivers - PCL5 ver 5.1.1.8283 - PCL6 v. 5.1.1.8283 - ver 5.0.3 PCL 5 & 6. This is a great color printer and I just spent a lot of money for new color cartridges.

Hello Bambi:
You can ignore those permission repair messages. Everyone gets them, and they are "informational" - to whom, I do not know. FWIW, permission repair is, IMHO, a waste of time (although I do it myself after a software update).
Try deleting the printer and then reinstalling it.
Has anything changed before the problem began?
The "ton" of firewall messages may or may not be relevant.
Unfortunately, I do not use a wireless network (mine is Ethernet). There is a rather large HP driver update that Apple released a couple of months ago.
As a further suggestion, you might post your question in the networking forum. I am not (to say the least) expert in connectivity problems, but people there have a lot of expertise.
Barry

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My Color LaserJet 2500 is putting random blue spots on the pages. Looks like water drops on an inkjet printout.
I've printed the cleaning page and run it through, didn't make a difference. What's making the spots?
Here's how to do the cleaning since the Toolbox software doesn't work with Internet Explorer 8 or higher.
The original CD-ROM for the HP Color Laserjet 2500 contains "toolbox" software for checking the status of the printer, doing some basic diagnostics, updating the firmware, and running the printer's self cleaning process. (It stopped the horizontal streaking on mine!)
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If the printer is connected by parallel port, enter this command from a command prompt. If your printer is on a different port number, change that part.
copy cleaning_page.prn /B LPT1
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copy clean_mode_page.prn /B LPT1
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Hello Galane,
To get your issue more exposure I would suggest posting it in the commercial forums since this is a commercial product. You can do this at Commercial Forums.
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HP Color LaserJet 2500 and new Airport Extreme

I have tried to connect my HP Color LaserJet 2500 to the new Airport Extreme USB port. Printer setup utility recognizes the printer but when I print I it always errors out. Any work around for this? I have noticed two other postiings for other HP models that are having the same problem. Is this a universal HP problem?

I have tried to connect my HP Color LaserJet 2500 to
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HP Color Laserjet 2500 colors problem

Helloo!
I have a problem with my HP Color Laserjet 2500. I use Windows 7 proffesional 32-bit computer. Installed driver from hp support, because the CD that came with the printer, is only for XP/ 2000 /ME etc. I tried both, the PC5 and PC6 driver, always the same problem.
I can print, but i have one problem, and few questions.
Problem: Sometimes it prints only yellow color, sometimes only magneta. Sometimes it combines blue and magneta, and leaves black and yellow out. And sometimes, it prints all the colors. I could say, that almoust 50% of the times, it prints normally. When it does not, it prints like i desicribed above, in all different possibilities, sometimes doesn't print yellow, magneta, blue or black. Sometimes it doesn't print two colors, rearly prints only 1 color, and even more rearly (happened about 2-3 times) it doesn't print anything. It has been a problem for years since i attached it to the Win7 computer, but at first it worked great. Then sometimes it messed up 1 document in a while, then 2, then 3 in a week. But now it's bit more than 50% of the documents that it messes up.
Quesion 1: It appears, that when i choose Printing Preferences in the computer, it displays some different language, i think it's arabic!? Written from right to left. How can i change that?
Qouestion 2: I can't find my products serial number. When i print out the configuration page, it says Printer Serial Number: CNHDD06356, but when i post it in the HP Chat Support, it gives me error. What am i supposed to do?
If you solve my problem, i will buy you a beer when we meet!
PS. What i've tried:
Cold reset.
Different drivers.
New USB wire from printer to computer.
All cartridges have over 40% ink in them. Black 44, cyan 97, magneta 76 and yellow 97%.
Imaging drum is practically new, shows 93%.
Cleaned the printer inside.
Added a bit WD40 to moving parts.
Now i'm hoping you can help me..
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Hello again!
I SOLVED IT !
Who ever, when ever will have the same issue, here's how i fixed it (sorry for my not so correct english):
I googeled around a bit more, and found a topic in some forum:
http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/printer/68382
http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/printer/63372#1
And then i saw a video in here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BoxmagIjhg
What i did:
Took the printer apart. All the plastic covers. I think i only had to take 2 screws out, to cet the covers. I only didn't take down the cover where you can put paper in, i didn't need to.
The cover where you put colors inside was tricki. The lid communicates with other pinions, so you'll have to remove it. To remove it, there is this little black pinion inside the printer. In the center of the pinion, there is a buttonish thing, you'll have to push it to the side ways, from center to edge to remove the pinion and then you'll be able to remove the top plastic cover.
Then i did as it's shown in the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BoxmagIjhg
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Then i put all the pieces back together and it worked !
You cant believe my happiness, when it started to print every paper correctly. I had this problem for a while, and unbelievably this worked.
If you have the same problem, i hope this trick will solve yours too.

HP Color LaserJet 2500 Toolbox

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Hi,
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Adhvaresh,
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Yeah, tried printing from PDF and image issues persist. I'm not sure what's going on if everything checks out from hardware standpoint. Appreciate your suggestions though.
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Hi Yahootie,
This is a commercial line product. For the best answer to your questions you will need to repost your question to the following links.
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Business-Support-Forums/ct-p/business-support
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Have a nice day!
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Hi there cdyson44, Welcome to the Forums!
To get your issue more exposure I would suggest posting it in the commercial forums since this is a commercial product. You can do this at: http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Printing-and-Digital Imaging/ct-p/bsc-412
I hope this helps!
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Hi trixie49,
The link below is to the guided troubleshooting utility. Since this is a commercial LaserJet printer you should also post your question to the second link below.
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