Happy to hear you worked that out! On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Victor Odhner 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 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 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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~(-: