Hp Smart Install
You can use the HP Smart Install utility to disable/enable HP Smart Install. The utility is stored on the software CD, in the UTIL folder. SIUtility.exe is for 32-bit operating systems and SIUtility64.exe is for 64-bit operating systems. Download HP Smart Print for Windows to select, customize, edit, and print particular document or Website content sections. HP Smart Print has had 0 updates within the past 6 months. Disable the smart install feature, I don't remember where that is in the menus. HP actually stopped installing this feature and if the firmware on your printer is up to date it should not even try to install using that function so I have not dealt with it in ages. Yeah, I've never gotten Smart Install to work correctly.
- Download HP Smart Tank Plus 551 Manual for Windows and macOS. Before downloading the manual, refer to the following operating systems to make sure the HP Smart Tank Plus 551 printer is compatible with your PC or Mac to avoid when installation, installing the driver, or using the printer.
- Step 1: Install the HP Smart app Install the HP Smart app, and then add your printer. Go to HP Smart (in English) to download and install the HP Smart app on your Mac running macOS 10.12 or later.
The HP Smart Tank Plus 555 inkjet printer with wireless all-in-one technology is a multifunction printer with ink tank technology. This means that the ink is not fed through cartridges as usual, but is filled into special tanks on the outside of the device. Filling the ink tanks worked without problems for us. The included bottles have a drip-stop in the lid so that they can be turned upside down and the ink-filled in without any problems. Only the insertion of the printheads is a bit freaky because the top cover cannot be opened with this model. The look in the HP Smart Tank Plus 555 manual then explained all further steps very clearly and simply. Refilling the tanks was quick and the fingers mostly stayed clean. It became more problematic when installing the printheads. When installing the printheads, make sure that the two are pushed in far enough. If you do it too gently, the printheads will not engage properly and the blue latch will not close. The printheads are in the right way when the top edges are horizontal. During the subsequent setup, the printer asked us to install the HP SMART app or, alternatively, the HP Easy Start software, which can be downloaded from the website. The printer cannot be set up without an Internet connection since a CD-ROM is not included. The HP Smart Tank Plus 555 has proven itself very well in everyday use. The print speed is sometimes a bit slow, but this does not have a negative impact on us. The print quality is excellent and the price per printed page is unbeatably low. Copying both in color and in black and white also works with us without any problems. Once integrated into the WLAN, the printer is found by every device, even if the HP SMART app is not installed. Unfortunately, there are two downers: there is the size of the paper tray because with a maximum of 100 pages this device turned out to be a bit small.
Download HP Smart Tank Plus 555 Manual for Windows and macOS
Before downloading the manual, refer to the following operating systems to make sure the HP Smart Tank Plus 555 printer is compatible with your PC or Mac to avoid when installation, installing the driver, or using the printer.
Download HP Smart Tank Plus 555 User Guide and Hardware Installation Guide
The manual below includes all tutorials from beginning to advanced guide to using your printer.
HP Smart Tank Plus 555 User Guide
File size: 2.02MB
HP Smart Tank Plus 555 Setup Poster
File size: 2.37MB
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For a long time, I have had a preference for HP printers. The quality is just built into the hardware and they tend to work longer and more reliably in my experience. However, HP has a history of getting in the way of allowing a simple install of the printer. Back in the day, it was the HP Toolbox that you had to install in order to get the printer installed instead of providing a simple driver. For a while, they did provide just the driver but now they’re back to getting in the way. In 2010, HP announced their Smart Install technology and it’s been getting in the way recently, so it was time to do a little digging and learn more about HP Smart Install and the options that come along with it.
From my first impression with the HP Smart Install, it needlessly complicates the installation of a printer connected to a PC by USB. Instead of the PC recognizing a printer, it now recognizes a virtual cd drive. This provides the driver to do the install but it also requires that you go through their installer in order to switch the printer to telling the computer that it is a printer and not a mass storage device. This is to solve the problem that end users are not sure when to connect the USB cable to the printer.
Here’s how an install is supposed to go for a wireless install:
You can also watch a video from HP for an HP Smart Install Demo. HP Smart Install is on a number of HP LaserJet printers now, including the HP LaserJet Pro P1100w, P1560, P1600, M1130, M1210 MFPs for USB and wireless networked connections but only on Windows machines.
The problem with the Smart Install feature is that it relies on AutoPlay to really make itself pronounced. AutoPlay is recommended to be disabled due to USB-riding malware or it could be changed based on user preference. The other problem is that the drivers on the printer are not up to date, so you will find yourself downloading drivers regardless of this feature that boasts no CD or download required. This is particularly noticeable with a number of drivers having been just updated to support Windows 8.
Install Hp Smart Application
For more information, refer to the HP Smart Install page and No CD Installation page from HP. Most informative, however, is the HP Smart Install Questions and Answer guide (.PDF). It provides the most useful information without the marketing push. For example, you can disable the Smart Install functionality (by using a Smart Install utility):
25. Can I turn HP Smart Install off or on?
Yes. You can use the HP Smart Install utility to disable/enable HP Smart Install. The utility is stored on the software CD, in the UTIL folder. SIUtility.exe is for 32-bit operating systems and SIUtility64.exe is for 64-bit operating systems.
Hp Smart Install App
As a person comfortable with technology, I would certainly prefer if the Smart Install feature would just get out of the way and let me install the printer like a printer. Unfortunately, it cannot be installed directly when it is only being recognized as a virtual cd-rom. On a recent instance, I had to dive into the device manager in order to uninstall the HP Smart Install device after the install crashed half-way through. If it would just identify itself as a printer, the operating system or the end user would most likely be able to take it from there as it has been done for years. Is this another example of the user experience being dumbed down and actually making things more complicated?