<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="">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><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="">http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_pro_k550.html<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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