Prints two bars across top only

If the Cartridge and printer alignment is successfull and you are still not able to print in color, mostly the Color print is disabled in your pc

Click on START Button
Click on CONTROL PANEL
Open Printers and Faxes folder
Highlight the Printer icon for Deskjet
Right click on the printer icon and choose Printing Preferences
Under Printing preferences, you will find Printing mode - It must be on BLACK or GREY SCALE, Change to COLOR/ ALL
try printing.

That is strange
Try changing the default to a different printer (Microsoft XPS Document Writer) see if it prints to it...

Then (If that works) try switching the 5550 back to default.

If that don't do it, uninstall thee printer, reboot and reinstall the printer.

Try when the message comes up click on print anyway. I have to do this with my printer sometimes and when I click print anyway and do not try to correct it prints fine.

Hi all of you
your problem sound as you have hanged Button, try clean it and refit it.
thanks,

Hamedo

could be low on ink or toner. dont you just love that? itll print out a test page which is a waste of ink but wont print out anything else.

Here is a HP document on what causes the green (power) light to blink and how to T/S it:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00035263&dlc=en&product=71896

copy and paste the link into your browser.
If I could be of further assistance, let me know. If this helps or solves the issue, please rate it.
Thanks, Joe


I’m happy to assist further over the phone at https://www.6ya.com/expert/joe_8b8c2cd6ce148309

top blinking light

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00473778&product=428800&dlc=en&lang=en

1st page prints perfect but the 2nd page comes out with very light and skipped printing.

thats easy! HP has a bad habit of screwing drivers up! List here what operating system you have, and the exact,with any letters behind the 5550, model number here and I'll get the drivers. I have almost every drivers for windows for that particular printer