printer

Sat Feb 20 15:17:35 MST 2016

Happy to hear you worked that out!

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:

> I have success after wandering in the weeds for a while.
> I was distracted by the New Printer dialog that showed this:
>     HP Officejet Pro K550 (joy, 169.254.74.169)
>
> Well “joy” is the name of our Airport Express device, which is what the
> printer is plugged into. So that must be it, right? All my attempts to use
> it failed.
>
> My research ran into something called hp-setup, and something else called
> hp-doctor, and the latter did some software updates for me, but kept
> reporting that there was nothing found on the network.
>
> Then I realized that the “HP Officejet Pro” line had me fooled: the
> Airport Express “joy” was at 192.168.1.191.
>
> So I used “Find Network Printer” for host “joy” and it added a line,
> “JetDirect(joy)” as it had before. And that was it. The lack of description
> for the printer, and the distracting descriptive line that was incorrect,
> are what fooled me.
>
> Thanks for your help and patience. *:)*
> ________________
>
> On Feb 20, 2016, at 12:53:03, Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:
>
> I found HPLIP was already installed. I added HPIJS for good measure.
> I was able to select a driver "HP Officejet Pro K550 hpijs, 3.15.2”.
>
> The printer is still “not responding.”
>
> I didn’t see HPLIP mentioned anywhere in the driver choices.
> _________
>
> Details follow.
>
> Selected the driver and asked for a test page:
>
>   Description: HP Officejet Pro K550
>   Device URI: dnssd://K550._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/
>   Make and Model: HP Officejet Pro K550 hpijs, 3.15.2
>   Result: Processing - The printer is not responding.
>
> Printer’s light is green, and it’s working from the Macbook.
> I notice that the printer icon doesn’t show in the taskbar.
>
> Tried printer-make “Generic (recommended)”:
>    There are ESC/P, GDI, IBM-Compatible, OAKT,
>    PCL*, PDF, PostScript*, Raw Queue, text-only and ZjStream.
>    I chose PCL 3 (recommended).
>    Two drivers are offered: Foomatic and K550 hpijs, 3.15.2 [en].
>    I chose the hpijs.
>
> Print Test Page —> Connecting to Printer —> not responding.
> Same as before.
> __________________
>
> On Feb 20, 2016, at 10:59:13, 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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