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[Michael]

thank you Brian... that was al I had to do!

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <brian at snaptek.com> 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 <brian at snaptek.com
>>> <mailto: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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