Officejet 6500 Display Panel is blurry and illegible - Mac Os6

I just moved and now set up the printer to run wirelessly through my Mac desktop. Previously, it was running off of my wife's MacBook. But i think this problem predates the move. All I see on the panel display on the printer are some random images.

Davsong, welcome to the forum. Have you tried unplugging the printer? I hate to say it but it sounds like the LCD display may have been damaged in the move. I would go ahead and call: 800-474-6836 at your earliest convience.
Sorry!
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Officejet 6500 wireless only print header and footer.

I have Dell desktop and Toshiba laptop with HP officejet 6500. On my Dell, pages from the internet (email, etc) only print the top line and bottom line of the page. Pages from Word, Exel, etc print fine. On my Toshiba laptop every thing prints ok. This is a Dell 519 desktop. This is a wireless setup. Hope this is enough info. Appreciate any help I can get Thank You. [email protected]

Just to be clear - the 6500 is connected to your router via wireless? What brand/model of router?
Your MBPro has two instances of the printer (one USB and one wireless)? If so, delete the USB instance. Also, turn printer sharing off.
Now, go to the other computers and delete and re-add the printer in the print queue:
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If this does not work, do the same thing, only instead of the second step, right (control) click the print queue area and select Reset Printing System.
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JPG images not displayed correctly in Bridge and Photoshop (Mac OS)

(Note: I have copied the content of this query from the Creative Suites forum where I originally opened it.)
I am using CS4 under OSX 10.4.11 on a PowerMac G5 Quad with 23" Apple cinema display. Images which have been captured as JPG are displayed fine by Preview, but when opened in Bridge, Camera Raw or Photoshop. the colours are all "washed out". The attached screen capture should give an idea of the difference, with the upper being Camera Raw (image settings) and the lower being Preview. My monitor has been calibrated and I'm using sRGB IEC61966-2.1 colour space in Camera Raw and Photoshop. The colours displayed by Preview are pretty close to "real life". I find it virtually impossible to adjust the colours in Photoshop to get back to anything similar.
After opening the image in Photoshop without adjustment, and Save As JPEG with embedded color profile, Preview displays the new image the same as Photoshop. Save As JPEG without embedded color profile, and Preview displays this copy just like the original. It seems that Photoshop is making different (incorrect) assumptions about what color space to use when there is no embedded color profile. Shouldn't it assume sRGB like virtually everything else (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB)? Or is its interpretation of sRGB incorrect? How can I fix this?
Re: JPG images not displayed correctly in Bridge and Photoshop

xxxxyyyyz wrote:
…If there is someone out there who has experience of obtaining decent colour management in CS4 on a Power PC, I would really like to know how you achieved it.
That would be yours truly, and I hasten to reply because I may have some insights that can help you too.
Just get it it out of the way, here's my setup:
Photoshop 11.0.2 ("CS4"); VersionCue disabled and uninstalled.—2.5 GHz Power Mac (PPC) G5-Quad; 16GB RAM; mutant, flashed 550MHz nVidia GeForce 7800GTX 1,700MHz 512MB VRAM; ATTO ExpressPCI UL5D LP SCSI card; Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 and Leopard 10.5.8 boot drives; Spotblight, Dashboard and Time Machine permanently disabled; dual 22" CRT monitors; USB wireless 'n' available but connected to the Internet via wired Ethernet; 1 FW flatbed scanner; 2 SCSI scanners (one tabloid-size transparency scanner and a film scanner); various internal & external HDs; FW Epson 2200 and Ethernet Samsung ML-2850ND printers; 2 X Back-UPS RS 1500 XS units.
I can unambiguously and in good faith represent to you that my color management, from capture to print, is as spot-on as anyone with any kind of setup can hope to achieve. Unequivocally and without qualifications.
Now, first things first: Forget about trying to synchronize color management across the point applications lumped together only by Adobe marketing fiat into a variety of meaningless "creative suites". Concentrate on Photoshop. Do not try to use Bridge to synchronize anything.
The "suites" are a totally artificial construct created by Adobe bean counters and marketing types. The point applications (i.e. the individual programs clumsily bundled together, e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.) are developed independently by separate engineering teams that are not only not in the same building, but in different cities, different states of the American Union, and even in different countries. They have very little communication among them, if any, as evidenced by repeated posts in these forums by Photoshop engineering staff urging us, the end users, to let the other teams know in their own forums that a given problem exists and is actually affecting our work.
Enough said about the cause of the problem. The end result is that Color Management is at very, very different levels of progress and sophistication in each individual point application, with only Photoshop fully entitled to be considered state of the art.
Secondly, a disclaimer: I have been hanging on to my CRT monitors and take care of them as Jascha Heifetz used to take care of his Stradivarius. I don't know what I will do if I manage to outlive the usefulness and accuracy of my CRTs (unlikely at this point). I have despaired in futile efforts to bring the luminosity of any LCD monitor down to where I would feel comfortable calibrating and profiling it. I believe my monitors are the foundation of my color management efforts.
Especially if you have one of the extreme wide-gamut LCD or LED monitors, you'll face an uphill battle.
Be careful to avoid any version 4 icc profiles, whether canned or generated by your calibration software. Stick to version2 icc profiles. Ask the manufacturer of your calibration software/hardware if in doubt.
Here are some not-too-recent, but thoroughly representative screen shots of the calibration results I obtain with my monitors, which I calibrate and profile often and regularly (I validate the calibration at least several times per month).
In a nutshell, my color management practices and settings mirror those described by Bruce Fraser, Jeff Schewe, Andrew Rodney and Gary Ballard's site. I have learned from all of them.
My working color space is ProPhoto RGB. I choose to work with PSD and PSB files. As a long-time, rabid JPEG hater, I only rarely deal with JPEGs, using them sporadically to illustrate a point in this forum or elsewhere in the web. My main output consists of prints.
I only deal with tagged image files (files with an embedded color profile) and often recommend beating up with a baseball bat any moron that hands you an untagged file—figuratively of course, but I find the expression gets my point across unambiguously.
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Note that I have never bought into the "suite" concept myself. I do have and routinely use Adobe Illustrator 10.x, InDesign 2.x and Acrobat Professional 8.x, but they are all older, independent versions of each point application, licensed at different times.
Be further advised, that the answer to many problems offered by Adobe engineers often is not to install VersionCue, or uninstall it, or at least disable it.
Also, as outlined at the beginning of this post, concentrate on Photoshop, not on synchronizing applications that can't really communicate with each other, despite the claims of Adobe marketing hacks to the contrary.
One big caveat, do not fall into this trap:
xxxxyyyyz wrote:
…I believe my problem has nothing to do with my monitor profile, for several reasons, but…
…It seems extremely unlikely to me that…
You either want to learn, or you don't. You either want to solve your problems, or you don't.
When you start arguing instead of studying, questioning advice instead of following it and detecting where you went wrong, you're on the right track to nowhere. That attitude will get you there fast. Remember you are the one with the problem, and only you can acquire the discipline to learn how to solve it.
Go ahead and ask me anything that is not clear, just don't argue with me please, and don't tell me why you think Fraser, Rodney, Ballard and I are wrong. You see, I am not experiencing any problem that needs fixing. I have an interest in helping you, but not in hearing about your speculations, theories or conclusions.
Good luck.
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I
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I have a brand new OfficeJet 6500 E710n that I use on two Macs running 10.6.
I've had no end of problems with this printer and Fax and I honestly feel like returning it to Costco!!!! I only bought it a week ago and already the ink is running low, I've had to clean the printheads a dozen times, and I can't get it to connect to a fax machine!! As for printing, jeez, it's crazy.
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Hello @Sibbe!
Thank you for posting on the HP Forums!
I can see that you have replaced the printhead but are not getting colors on the paper when printing. I should be able to provide some suggestions that may resolve the issue! The first thing I recommend is to remove the printhead and manually clean the electrical contacts in the printer and on the new printhead. Ink can mist up onto the electrical contacts and if they are not getting a solid connection it may not print correctly.
For instructions on manually cleaning the printhead click here: Manually cleaning Printhead
Please post back and let me know how it goes!
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OfficeJet 6500 709n and MicroSoft Office 2010 duplex print problem

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My PC is connected by LAN to the router.
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You have an option to turn off sleep mode.
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I have an HP Officejet 6500A all-in-one printer. The right side of the control panel seems locked and does not respond so it creates problems and there are features that are unavailable to me. All functions on the left side of the screen work fine. I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem or if one side of the screen can lock.
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Hi KEJA
I understand the right side of the control panel seems locked.
I would do a power reset to see if that will resolve the issue. With the printer still turned on disconnect the power cable from the back of the printer, then disconnect the power cable from wall outlet. Wait 10 seconds and reconnect the power cable back to the wall outlet first, then the back of the printer and power it on again.
Update the printers firmware. I have included the link. Just select your operating system, click next and click on firmware link and download and run the firmware update.
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I included this document for troubleshooting display issue.
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If these steps don't resolve the issue I would recommend to call HP Tech Support for
further assistance to see what other options are available for you.
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/contact-hp/ww-contact-us.html
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I just got an Officejet 6500 (non-wireless model)
I can assign a network name to it and it works fine, until it's power-cycled. Then it has the original network name again and of course it won't work until it's installed again.
Another problem that could probably be related is that even when I use the default network-name to add it as a network printer in Vista, connection seem to break and it won't print again until I install it over once again.
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@Wifi-Guy: Yes, it's using an ethernet cable IP address always work.
I did some additional testing to find the exact reproducable error.
(I have previously installed the HP software that came on the CD)
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3. Turn off the Officejet 6500 on the power-button on the front panel (then the WSD Print Provider dissappears in Device Manager).
4. Printer status now appear as "Offline"
5. Turn on the Officejet 6500 again
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Officejet 6500 and wireless router not connecting

I just purchased an Officejet 6500 and trouble trying to connect it to my wireless router. Each time I try to connect the printer by wireless it locks up. The power button is not lit, but the screen is lit with no text. At this stage I cannot shut it down or get it operating again. I'm running Vista Business 64-bit and the router is a 2wire 1800HG through AT&T. It runs fine with a usb connection.
Thanks in advance. John
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I think you've just run into a known problem with some HP network printers with 2WIRE AT&T DSL routers.
We've identified the problem and will deploy an update sometime in the future. Until then, the work around is to assign a static IP address to the printer. Here's one way to do this:
Unplug he telephone line from the 2WIRE router
Turn the power off on the 2WIRE router, wait 30 seconds, then turn the power back on.
Go through the normal process of connecting the printer to the 2WIRE device (Ethernet or Wi-Fi). The printer will not crash as long as the telephone line is disconnected from the 2WIRE device.
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Select "IP Address" and change the last IP address group (octet) to something higher or lower. Specifically for your 2WIRE router, select 192.168.0.60.
Press Ok and plug in the telephone line into the 2WIRE router.
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I have a HP Officejet 6500 that I used with a HP dv6 computer. I upgraded to a dv7 with Windows 8 I want to download the HP solution center but the disc that came with the printer is not compatible with Windows 8, only XP and vista. What are my options for getting HP solution center??

Hi,
Probably you have to do a cleanup and try again. HP may know that therefore it supplies a cleanup program. You can download the cleanup program from the following link:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=mp-110137-1&cc=au&dlc=en&lc=en...=
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