OJ 6500 Printing at 52 dpi

I have been unable to get my HP Officejet 6500 to print at the correct size using Adobe Photoshop CS4. Photoshop's print preview shows the document correctly but when I print, the graphic is scaled down drastically. I changed the setting to "Show preview before printing" which is where I have identified that the document is being forced to print at 52 dpi instead of its actual specs. I have never had this problem with any other printer, I recently purchased the HP Officejet 6500 for its wireless capabilities.
Please let me know what the solution to this problem would be, I have not had any luck tracking down the answer in the forum.

I have a similar problem with my new Officejet 6500 in Photoshop CS2. The Photoshop print with preview window always shows portrait no matter what I changed, and looks at letter size. The printout would either be cut off or squeezed into some funny size. Looks like HP software has some bugs with Photoshop paper size and orientation. By the way, The HP software is a memory hog and it is not user-friendly at all compared to Epson's.
I never had any problems with my Epson CX3800 and LaserJet 4P.

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What is asking you for an admin name and password? What does the dialog say, exactly?
What model iMac are you using, and which OS version?
If it is earlier than Lion or Snow Leopard, try deleting the printer and adding it again as explained in this document
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3140
Otherwise you can "reset the printing system" as explained here
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1341
and here
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3147
Download the latest drivers here (Lion, Snow Leopard)
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL907

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The document here may help resolve black not printing on your Officejet 6500. Be sure to check the vents as shown in solution three. If this does not resolve the issue the post here may help.
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(New slant on) Printing at 1200 dpi from inDesign CS5 to a Xerox colour laser.

I print calendars magazines and stuff like that.
If I use Photoshop CS3~CS5 I can print a 600 dpi photograph to my Postscript 3 enabled Xerox 1200 dpi laser and get quite good appearance of the photo. Even better if I use a 1200 dpi image in the first place but when I use inDesign CS4~CS5 I can't print to the Xerox at anything over 600 dpi. Sure I can place a 1200 dpi image in the document but it still prints at a resolution that looks suspiciously like 300 dpi and the option to print at 1200 dpi is not available to me. I've filled the xerox to capacity with RAM and have a hard drive in it to store popular documents on.
I've explored many ways some associates and posters to these forums have suggested but I still can't get the quality of print from inDesign that I get from Photoshop (or for that matter a popular page layout program from Canada).
The perplexing thing I have yet to find the answer to is:
Commercial printing presses print at 2400 dpi. (let's not confuse the issue here with lpi screens) inDesign is supposedly a professional level program, you'd think would be capable of delivering 2400 dpi output if commercial presses use that resolution. If this is so... Can anyone tell me please how to make inDesign output 2400 or even 1200 dpi?
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"John... You seem to be knowledgable in the area of RIPs and platemaking so here's a question you might care to answer. Suppose my platemaker can make a plate at 5080 dpi. (Forget the screening pitch for now) how do send an inDesign document to the platemaker at 5080 dpi resolution? For that matter how do I send any device a document at more than 600 dpi using inDesign? Answer that and you've answered my original question."
ID's "Print Presets" for Postscript output are based on the RIP's PPD. Since I do not have a RIP connected to my current workstation, the preset defaults to 'device independent'. The only setting for resolution is the transparency flattener which can be set to "High Resolution". You should be able to use the Xerox's RIP PPD in the "Print Presets" under File > Print Presets; where the output resolution should be able to be established. My hunch is, you may have to settle for "High Resolution" and the RIP will output the highest resolution available in the Xerox machine ( if there are no options for resolution in the presets ).
"The only way I can import an indesign PDF into a my pagesetter is to interpolate the images to 1200 ppi seperately from the text and line art which can be 300 dpi or ppi without showing discernable difference. Perhaps your reply in this area was regarding text, not images?"
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The long and short of it is this. InDesign is capable of setting its resolution as "High" for raster setting ( i.e., transparency flattener ). I agree with you it is frustrating that you cannot set the output res anywhere in ID. I believe that is because it ( the resolution ) is left up to either the RIP or the Print Driver ).
"The perplexing thing I have yet to find the answer to is:
Commercial printing presses print at 2400 dpi. (let's not confuse the issue here with lpi screens)"
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Hi there,
A full factory reset may not be required. Try downloading and running the print and scan doctor located here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03275041&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en
It can fix a lot on its own and if not give a better idea of what is going on.
Best of Luck!
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But since I swapped my Linksys WRT160N v2 access point with the Apple Time Capsule, my HP 6500 printer cannot be installed anymore on my iMac.
I have a very flat network :
Telenet router connected to internet, other side : wired Time Capsule (and then wireless to my iMac, iPhones, iPad and Airport Express), wired ethernet switch with wired Brother Laser printer and wired HP 6500 printer. All having fixed IP addresses (except of course the iPhones and iPad).
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Hello:
I must apologize . I should have checked here first:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#HP
According to the list, there is no driver for your printer included in OS X 10.7.
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1. Contact HP to see if they have a workaround.
2. If the model of printer is not listed but your printer is a PostScript printer or PCL Laser printer, try the "Generic PostScript" or "PCL Laser printer" drivers. Generic printer drivers may not let you access all the features of your printer.
I have not tried #2, but some people have had success.
Barry

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Hi there david623,
If that did not work for you lets try downloading and running the print and scan doctor located here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03275041&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en
It can fix a lot on its own and if not give a better idea of what is going on.
Best of Luck!
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Hi BobFr,
Thank you for your reply! Please try the following solutions:
Diagnose and fix printer and printing problems automatically. Use this to try and fix the problem.
Fix problems that programs cannot be installed or uninstalled. Use this to uninstall the software.
Clean boot. How to perform a clean boot in Windows.
In command prompt type in sfc /scannow. (Type CMD and hit Enter, in the Search programs and files box in the Start Menu).
Clear the temp folder. Delete files using Disk Cleanup.
Re-install using the HP Printer Install Wizard for Windows.
Hope this helps you, and have a great day!
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