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 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 > > 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: