printer

[Michael]

thanks Brian. I know your comment was not directed at me but I think that
is what I needed to do. We shall see what happens when it is done!

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> 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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