printer

[Victor Odhner]

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 <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.
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On Feb 20, 2016, at 09:12:48, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> 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

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