HP Officejet 5258 Setup Guidance

1. Take a knife or blade and cut open the sealing tape at the top and sides of the HP5258 box.
2. Set the HP5258 box on its side and slide the printer out.
3. Use the blue plastic bag handles to remove the printer from the box.
4. Discard the plastic bag.
5. Peel off the packing tape and set it aside for recycling.
6. "Raise" the HP Officejet 5258 setup’s scanner assembly, pull the input tray out, and remove the packing material from both these areas.
7. Close the scanner assembly and push the input tray into the printer.
8. "Attach" the power cable to the HP5258 machine’s rear Power port and wall outlet.
9. Switch ON the HP5258 printer by touching the Power button.
10. After a few minutes, the printer initializes, and the language selection screen appears.
11. Choose any preferred language by tapping it once.
12. Tap the appropriate country/region.
13. Tap Info --> Manual Setup.
14. The HP5258 machine prompts you to install the ink cartridges.
15. Lift the HP5258 machine’s scanner assembly until it locks into place.
16. Flip the black and color ink cartridge latches open.
17. Take the black and tri-color ink cartridges out of the package.
18. Remove the HP tab covering the ink cartridge nozzles.

19. Install the color and black ink cartridges in their respective slots on the HP Officejet 5258 setup.
20. Flip the cartridge latches over the cartridges to secure them.
21. Lower the scanner assembly.
22. The HP5258 machine displays a prompt stating that HP Instant Ink cartridges have been installed.
23. Tap "OK".
24. Load paper in the HP5258 machine’s paper tray.
25. Pull out the HP printer's paper tray and slide the edge width guides outward to the end position.
26. Load a stack of A6 paper.
27. Push the paper width guides towards the paper stack to secure it.
28. Tap OK below the paper loading message.
29. Slide out the paper support and flip open its extension.
30. The printhead alignment prompt appears. Tap OK.
31. Wait until the page is fully printed and then read the instructions printed on it.
32. Place it face down on the machine’s scanner glass and close the lid.
33. On the alignment page scanning screen, tap Scan. 
34. When the 'alignment successful' message appears, tap OK.
35. Then, you can tap Info --> Advanced setup and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the setup.

How to Replace Ink Cartridge in HP Officejet 5258?

1. Power ON the HP Officejet 5258 printer.
2. Grab the HP5258 machine’s scanner assembly and raise it until it locks into place.
3. Lift the latch securing the ink cartridge.
4. Remove the cartridge from its slot.
5. Unpack the new HP ink cartridge.
6. Detach the orange tape covering the cartridge’s ink nozzle.
7. Install this cartridge in its slot and close the cartridge latch.
8. Lower the machine’s scanner assembly.
9. The HP5258 machine prompts you to align the ink cartridges.
10. Follow the prompt shown on the screen to complete the ink cartridge alignment process.

HP Officejet 5258 Wireless Setup

1. Power ON the HP5258 printer and let it initialize.
2. After installing the ink cartridges and performing the printhead alignment by following the prompts shown on the machine’s control panel, tap OK on the ‘alignment successful’ screen.
3. The HP5258 printer prompts you to set up the printer with the app. However, you can set up the Wi-Fi connection manually.
4. Tap Info.
5. Tap Advanced Setup.
6. Select Wireless.
7. Tap the OK button.
8. By using the on-screen keypad, enter the passphrase.
9. Tap Done. Tap OK.
10. The ‘Connection Successful’ screen appears on the control panel.
11. Tap Yes to set up web services or tap ‘Set Up Later’ to perform it at a later time.
12. Tap the data collection checkbox if you do not want HP to collect data. (By default, it is selected.)

13. Tap "Continue".
14. Choose the printer location and purpose of use.
15. Install the HP5258 printer driver on your computer to complete the rest of the Wi-Fi setup.

HP Officejet 5258 WPS Pin Assistance

1. Power on the HP Officejet 5258 setup.
2. Navigate to Settings --> Wireless Settings
3. Use the Wi-Fi Protected Setup option on your HP5258 printer to connect it to the router
4. Follow the on-screen prompts to connect the HP5258 machine to the router by using the WPS PIN

HP Officejet 5258 Wifi Direct Print

1. On your Windows 10 computer, "go to" Settings-->Devices-->Printers & Scanners.
2. Select the ‘Add a printer/scanner’ option.
3. Click the ‘Show Wi-Fi Direct printers’ option.
4. Your HP5258 printer’s Wi-Fi Direct SSID should appear on the Wi-Fi SSID list.
5. Check whether the HP Officejet 5258 setup is in the ready state. If it is not in the ready state, tap the Power button once.
6. Now, return to the Windows 10 computer screen.
7. Click the ‘Add device’ button.
8. The computer prompts you to enter the WPS PIN. Make a note of the WPS PIN shown on the HP5258 printer screen.
9. Enter it in the Windows 10 computer’s ‘WPS PIN’ field.
10. Click Next.
11. The HP5258 printer is now connected to the computer via Wi-Fi Direct.

How to Scan on HP Officejet 5258 Printer

1. Note: Single-page documents have to be placed face down on the scanner glass while multiple-page documents should be placed face up inside the ADF.
2. On your Windows 10, Android, or iOS device, open HP Smart.
3. Add the HP5258 printer to your smart device.
4. Return to the home screen.
5. Ensure that the HP5258 printer is selected and then click Scan.
6. Choose the ‘Scanner’ option.
7. Select the Settings option and change the scan preferences.
8. Pick the Preview option from the Scan window.
9. Select the Scan option.
10. Pick a file type and tap Save.

HP Officejet 5258 Scan Multiple Pages

1. To scan multiple-page documents on the HP Officejet 5258 setup, load them in the ADF.
2. On your smart device, open HP Smart.
3. Tap Scan --> Scanner --> Settings.
4. Set the scan preferences.
5. Tap Scan --> Add --> Set the next page to be printed and repeat these steps.
6. After adding all the pages to be scanned, set a file type, and choose Save.
7. You can now share the scanned file to another device.

How to Fax on HP Officejet 5258?

1. Connect a line splitter into a wall phone jack.
2. Take a phone cord and attach it to any free port on the line splitter.
3. Attach the chord’s other end to the LINE port on your DSL modem.
4. To the free port on the line splitter, attach a DSL filter.
5. Attach a phone chord to the DSL filter and the printer’s 1-Line port.
6. Take the free end of the phone cord attached to the answering machine and connect it to the printer’s 2-EXT port.

7. Sidenote: If the telephone and answering machine are separate, connect each other with a telephone cord.
8. Set the document to be faxed on the HP5258 machine’s flatbed scanner and close the scanner lid.
9. On your PC, open the document to be faxed.
10. Click File --> Print.
11. Choose the HP5258 option that has the word ‘fax’ in it.
12. Type the number to which you want the fax to be sent.
13. Key in the fax information and select Fax.