[clue-tech] Setting up an HP Officejet printer...

[Michael Irons]

Check out HPLIP
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html

Not sure of the status of the "opensourceness" of all the drivers,
although some are GPLv2

You can check your device here
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html

I then use the HPLIP:// to connect although you can use others

Mike Irons

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:40 PM, David L. Anselmi<anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> Adrian F. Nagle, IV wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to set up a new HP6500 Officejet printer that is on the
>> network.
>
> That doesn't show up in the OpenPrinting database.  So you may have to wait
> a bit until the driver updates show up for your distro.
>
>> I use my browser to access my CUPS server and click add printer.
>> After entering info data, I enter "netowrk via ipp" and get to the
>> driver dialgu.  After selecting a printer driver, the browser hangs
>> waiting for my server.  I don't recall this difficulty before.
>
> I don't know whether IPP is the right protocol.  You might read about the
> hp-makeuri command and see what it gives you for the URI, if you can figure
> out how to tell it what printer you have.
>
> For the driver you can generate a PPD file with foomatic-configure, again if
> you can tell it what kind of printer you have.  Then you can put the .ppd in
> /etc/cups/ppd and tell CUPS to use it rather than selecting a driver.  With
> hplip that might not be the best way though.
>
>> Also, what packages do I download to get the latest drivers?  I just
>> installed "hplip".  Are there packages to download if I want to add a
>> printer directly from my KDE laptop?
>
> OpenPrinting says that for the HP6300 hplip is the right driver.  You can
> use the wizard at:
>
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install_wizard/index.html
>
> to see if your version supports your printer (they do list the 6500) and get
> a new version if necessary.
>
> Be sure to watch when that version gets into your distro so you can switch
> over.
>
> Dave
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