
#Hp officejet pro 7740 installation install#
In fact, attempts to install the appropriate drivers to make this device work without using this product, normally end in failure. The software solution on Windows 10 that HP promotes and supports, is the HP Smart application. The HP application software that were used on Windows 10 platform for this exercise were HP Smart, version 134.1.221.0 and the documentation for HP OfficeJet Pro 7740 Wide Format All-In-One series, User Guide, © 2020 HP Corporation. Any one of these may prevent the paper size from presenting itself to the user when they finally try to print, using the form that they may have setup. A user cannot set the printer’s paper size to any strange values and expect the related application software drivers to recognize it by defining any custom form, rather they must first understand that this printer has paper size detection, paper size limits and other constraints. platform, from here referred to as Windows 10. This paper specifically deals with the custom form issue, as provided by HP’s HP Smart HP Smart is a product and trademark of the HP Inc., formerly Hewlett-Packard Corporation.application on Microsoft’s Windows 10 Microsoft Windows 10 is a product trademark of the Microsoft Corporation, Inc. This paper hopes to ameliorate this misunderstanding. Part of the problem is also due to customer’s misunderstanding, or more precisely their lack of knowledge, of printer paper size, forms and how they map to paper sizes, lastly the proper printer and application configurations to use. Users who have purchased and use HP’s OfficeJet Pro 7740 Wide Format All-In-One Printer, from here on known simply as the printer, on claims that it supports wide formats, custom forms and other desirable features, quickly find that there are issues with the documentation.
#Hp officejet pro 7740 installation how to#
The solution hopefully more clearly states the crucial step or steps in the procedure to do this and how to avoid issues.


This is largely due to insufficient, outdated or wrong information that is contained on many fora and also in the product’s User Guide.

This short paper outlines a problem that many users have properly configuring forms to print with custom paper sizes on the 7740.
