<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I have success after wandering in the weeds for a while.</div><div class="">I was distracted by the New Printer dialog that showed this:</div><div class=""> HP Officejet Pro K550 (joy, 169.254.74.169)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then I realized that the “HP Officejet Pro” line had me fooled: the Airport Express “joy” was at 192.168.1.191.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for your help and patience. <b class=""><i class="">:)</i></b> </div><div class="">________________</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><div class="">On Feb 20, 2016, at 12:53:03, Victor Odhner <<a href="mailto:vodhner@cox.net" class="">vodhner@cox.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I found HPLIP was already installed. I added HPIJS for good measure.<div class="">I was able to select a driver "HP Officejet Pro K550 hpijs, 3.15.2”.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">The printer is still “not responding.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I didn’t see HPLIP mentioned anywhere in the driver choices.</div><div class="">_________</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Details follow. </div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Selected the driver and asked for a test page:<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Description: HP Officejet Pro K550</div><div class=""> Device URI: <a href="dnssd://K550._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/" class="">dnssd://K550._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/</a></div><div class=""> Make and Model: HP Officejet Pro K550 hpijs, 3.15.2</div><div class=""> Result: Processing - The printer is not responding.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Printer’s light is green, and it’s working from the Macbook.</div><div class="">I notice that the printer icon doesn’t show in the taskbar.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tried printer-make “Generic (recommended)”:</div><div class=""> There are ESC/P, GDI, IBM-Compatible, OAKT,</div><div class=""> PCL*, PDF, PostScript*, Raw Queue, text-only and ZjStream.</div><div class=""> I chose PCL 3 (recommended).</div><div class=""> Two drivers are offered: Foomatic and K550 hpijs, 3.15.2 [en].</div><div class=""> I chose the hpijs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Print Test Page —> Connecting to Printer —> not responding.</div><div class="">Same as before.</div><div class="">__________________</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Feb 20, 2016, at 10:59:13, Brian Cluff <<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" class="">brian@snaptek.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Do you have hplip installed? That printer is reported to "Work Perfectly" on the list of supported printers.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-OfficeJet_Pro_K550" class="">http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-OfficeJet_Pro_K550</a><br class=""><br class="">It says:<br class="">"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)."<br class=""><br class="">Brian Cluff<br class=""><br class="">On 02/20/2016 10:44 AM, Victor Odhner wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Keith wrote: "/HP is very good about providing drivers for their<br class="">printers/.” Not necessarily so, after they weary of supporting it.<br class=""><br class="">We have an HP OfficeJet K550, a nice printer that’s working well but<br class="">maybe as much as 10 years old. My recently installed Mint system doesn’t<br class="">show the K550; it comes up with a different printer’s name, labeled as<br class="">“recommended,” and that driver doesn’t work: it finds the printer but<br class="">when I try to print it declares that it is not connected.<br class=""><br class="">My Macbook has no problem finding it and printing. My son’s Win10 uses<br class="">the PCL3 Class Driver and works OK for plain text, but Win10 can’t find<br class="">a K550 driver. He says that HP has removed drivers and other support for<br class="">this printer, which is at “end of support”.<br class=""><br class="">I did find this:<br class=""><a href="http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_pro_k550.html" class="">http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_pro_k550.html</a><br class="">… which claims to have have a K550 driver.<br class=""><br class="">I haven’t tried to figure out how hplip works, since I can move<br class="">documents to my DropBox and print from the Macbook.<br class="">___________<br class=""><br class="">On Feb 20, 2016, at 09:12:48, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com<br class=""><mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On 02/20/2016 06:49 AM, Keith Smith wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I have not researched how to configure the print to fax and how to scan<br class="">using Linux... not sure it will work in these capacities with Linux.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">In my experience it is very likely that you WOULD be able to scan with<br class="">an HP all-in-one. 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