HP Deskjet printer buying guide

it puts like smiley faces, A with circle above it, a black circle, the @ sign, and a lot more.

I use a laptop with 3 USB ports. I use one for my mouse. Whenever I need to print I turn on the printer, plug in the usb cable, or whatever order comes to me first, and it slows down my computer.
Not only that, I can’t print until it re-installs the software, and makes an HP printer copy, like HP Photosmart copy 2, and so on. Anyone know how to stop this? I really need documents printed fast, last minute and this affects a lot.

I have a HP photosmart C2480 All-in-one series and a recent paper jam caused the printer to stop printing new print jobs even though I’ve cleared the jam. What could be wrong?

Try to update driver. Drivers are available on line. If it does not helps it must be technical problem. Fixing printer sometimes might cost more than by new.

I have the HP Photosmart 3180 all-in-one scanner/copier/printer, and when I go to scan something, it scans it all fine, etc. but then it closes the HP Scanning program automatically – so it has to restart every time I want to scan something. This is fine if I’m just scanning one or two things, but when I’m sitting and scanning for hours, it’s frustrating and wastes time.
Help!