Sunshyn -
1) Please post here or attach a screenshot of your "print preview" option. Many HP customers have posted here that the 8600 lacks "print preview" as an option in its own print window.
I just set up the 8600 for a Win 7 Pro 64-bit computer, and the HP print windows did NOT show me any print preview option. (It is available on the 8500 I have at home.) FYI - Both the Win 7 PC and the 8600 are in the same small workgroup-style home network feeding off a router; the 8600 is WiFi and the Win 7 PC is wired.
Let's be clear - the print preview option at issue here is in the HP print window for the printer (or, in the case of the 8600, missing from it). We're not discussing the print preview that comes up in the Adobe Acrobat print window. For example, if I print a Word doc to the 8600, there is NO option to see Print Preview before it prints. (We have Office 2003.)
2) What flavor of drivers are you using for your 8600? The full set that comes on the CD (with all the HP junkware), or the "basic" set I took off the HP website for the 8600 (that now also comes with HP junkware)?
I look forward to your next reply (with screenshot).
Thanks.
PS - Once again, it was exceedingly difficult to log in to this forum. I had to use IE - I could NOT log in using Firefox with NoScript security, even after instructing NoScript to "allow" everything. That is frequently the case with Lithium-powered forums, the worst forum platform anywhere. Given that HP is a computer company, it is another stunning example how HP just doesn't care how its choice of software affects the consumer. (But HP WILL push tons of junkware onto your PC if you download its printer drivers.)