HP Officejet 7720 Windows driver issues

Delta-Force · April 12, 2021

Bought a Officejet 7720 today, set it up and installed HP Smart. But I ran into a few issues.

1. Solved with better WIFI-Connection. WIFI-Reception is very bad IMO. 1 vs 5 bars with printer vs laptop is unacceptable. Print speed is very low. The print itself happens very fast, but if I try to print more than one page over the WIFI connection, it takes forever between pages. The first one comes out, it prints about 4cm of the second page and then waits for 10-15 second before finishing. Printer says wifi connection is at level 2 of 5, so not that good, although I have 5 bars on my laptop right next to it.

2. Because of the low speed I tried the USB connection. First pages is fine again, but from the second page onward the printer prints a solid black line at the left side. Pulling the cable and trying over wifi has a clean print again.

3. So after those 2 options I tried the direct Wifi print option. Windows finds the printer, connects to it, I type in the password but then Windows says that there is no driver. HPs Homepage says to install HP Smart. I already did that, but it still says no driver.

4. So now I print over the Wifi connection. Next probelm is that the duplex print flipped over the short side. After I switched from back to front to front to back the first doublessided print works, but when I select 2 or more prints every other one except the first print is upside down again. So 1st page is correct, 2nd and onward is flipped. Why's that?

What's going on that point 2 and 4 result in a bad print from page 2 onward? It's like it forgets how to print from then on.