![]() ![]() Image Quality needs to be set to "Normal" or better. Under Image Settings you can visually see if everything is correct, check "Ignore Page Margins" and make sure that the Width and Height are set to the highest value (about 4.131 and 6.196 respectively), Center should be set to "Both".Īlso check all the other options as well (Color, Image Quality, etc). Set Page Setup->Paper Source to "Photo Tray". Now physically load the 4圆 inch photo paper in the upper tray (the long 6 inch end goes into the printer) face down. and make sure Page Setup->Paper Size (it may be insensitive/greyed out) says "Photo Borderless 4圆in" (you can change this in File->Page Setup as mentioned above). Once you have double-checked everything, go to File->Print. You may need to adjust/resize/crop your image in order to get the right size. make sure it is set to 4 INCHES in width and 6 INCHES in height (double check the units). Then make sure that the image you are printing is the correct size and resolution by going to Image->Print Size. Note that it will say 4.22 inches wide and 6.2 inches height (I think this is for the full bleed/borderless effect, and not that the paper is actually that size). This works too, but requires a lot of steps and things to check.įirst open your image in GIMP and then go to File->Page Setup, set Format For to "Photosmart-7520" and the Paper Size, if you want to print (for example) on 4圆 inch photo paper select "Photo Borderless 4圆in". For the Paper Source, the Main Tray refers to the lower (lowest) physical tray on the printer and the "Photo Tray" refers to the removable tray just above it (where smaller photo paper is placed).Īlso, be sure to go through every setting just to be extra sure you have everything set correctly before you click on Print. If you do not set this then you may get some kind of "conflict error". Typically this is under Print.->Page Setup. You may also need to set EACH OF YOUR application's Printer Properties or Printer Setup and make sure that "Paper Type" and "Paper Source" are set to some value OTHER than Automatic. Some of the things you might run into is that you need to make sure that the correct printer is selected (make sure that you select the printer and not the FAX, seems like a silly thing to point out but having the wrong one selected happens more often than you think). ![]() Testing with GEdit and GIMP both print without any major problems. You may also need to log out and log in again for the "Actions->Print Test Page" and other things to work (I'm not sure why). In hp-toolbox select the printer ("Photosmart-7520") in the list and go to Printer Control->Set As Default. Remember to set the printer (not the FAX) as the default, for some reason it sets the FAX as the default sometimes. There is no entry for the scanner, it's handled differently (see scanning section below). That will really help when you are looking for the right one in an application's printers list. "HP Photosmart 7520 Printer" and "HP Photosmart 7520 FAX", and the identifier name should be "Photosmart-7520" and "Photosmart-7520-FAX" (respectively). I suggest that you set the verbose description to include "Printer" to distinquish that from the "FAX", e.g. It should then auto-detect and give you two listings Photosmart_7520 and Photosmart_7520_fax, one is for the printer and the other is for the FAX. Select your connection type (I used the USB connection), then HP as the manufacturer. But in case it did not auto detect this is what you need to do: Once I connected the printer to the computer (via USB) and powered on the printer everything was auto-detected. *You need to make sure that you remove ALL the physical blue packaging tape that was on the actual printer, there are a lot and if you miss one or two it can cause things to jam.įirst, make sure that you upgrade hplip, I needed to upgrade to hplip version 3.12.10a for things to work. I used a USB connection since I was not comfortable with wireless in my area. It took about an hour to actually get the printer out of the box, put it together (install ink and remove a bunch of packing tape*) and just connect it to the computer, it does not come with any instructions aside from a diagram on how to connect the power cable and warrenty. The printer cann also scan and FAX independent of any computer too. It's an All-In-One printer that has Scanning and FAX, which both features work with Linux under Ubuntu (I'm using Lucid 10.04 btw). I wrote these notes while installing a new HP Photosmart 5720 printer I got: ![]()
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