<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Keith wrote: "<i class="">HP is very good about providing drivers for their printers</i>.” Not necessarily so, after they weary of supporting it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I did find this:</div><div 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></div><div class="">… which claims to have have a K550 driver.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I haven’t tried to figure out how hplip works, since I can move documents to my DropBox and print from the Macbook.</div><div class="">___________</div><br class=""><div><div class="">On Feb 20, 2016, at 09:12:48, Brian Cluff <<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" class="">brian@snaptek.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div 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 an HP all-in-one. HP is very good about providing drivers for their printers.<br class=""><br class="">Brian Cluff<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------------------<br class="">PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" class="">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br class="">To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br class=""><a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" class="">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""></body></html>