printer

[Brian Cluff]

Do you have hplip installed?  That printer is reported to "Work 
Perfectly" on the list of supported printers.

http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-OfficeJet_Pro_K550

It says:
"For basic printing functionality use the HPIJS driver . For advanced 
functionality such as printer status, maintenance features, scanning and 
photo card unload use the HPLIP driver (which includes HPIJS)."

Brian Cluff

On 02/20/2016 10:44 AM, Victor Odhner wrote:
> Keith wrote: "/HP is very good about providing drivers for their
> printers/.” Not necessarily so, after they weary of supporting it.
>
> We have an HP OfficeJet K550, a nice printer that’s working well but
> maybe as much as 10 years old. My recently installed Mint system doesn’t
> show the K550; it comes up with a different printer’s name, labeled as
> “recommended,” and that driver doesn’t work: it finds the printer but
> when I try to print it declares that it is not connected.
>
> My Macbook has no problem finding it and printing. My son’s Win10 uses
> the PCL3 Class Driver and works OK for plain text, but Win10 can’t find
> a K550 driver. He says that HP has removed drivers and other support for
> this printer, which is at “end of support”.
>
> I did find this:
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_pro_k550.html
> … which claims to have have a K550 driver.
>
> I haven’t tried to figure out how hplip works, since I can move
> documents to my DropBox and print from the Macbook.
> ___________
>
> On Feb 20, 2016, at 09:12:48, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>
> On 02/20/2016 06:49 AM, Keith Smith wrote:
>> I have not researched how to configure the print to fax and how to scan
>> using Linux... not sure it will work in these capacities with Linux.
>
> In my experience it is very likely that you WOULD be able to scan with
> an HP all-in-one.  HP is very good about providing drivers for their
> printers.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
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