HP ENVY Photo 7855

[Michael]

Thanks for all your help. I got it installed and it is detecting my scanner
and is scanning documents! I couldn't open the file at first and I was
about to post a plea for help until I thought of asking duckduckgo. that
led me to what I needed to know. I'm so proud of myself!

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 11:02 PM Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> If you're running *ubuntu 18.04 it's got hplip version 3.17.10, so the
> default version should be good enough to get your printer working.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 10/28/18 6:06 PM, Michael wrote:
>
> That will be an easy thing to do. I didn't realize how easy it was going
> to be until I googled it and found:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/3.18.9/hplip-3.18.9.run/download?use_mirror=nchc
> I'm away from home at the moment but will take care of it when I return
> home.
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 1:38 PM Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-10-25 19:28, Michael wrote:
>> > It didn't work. Whether I selected USB or NEY I got the same response:
>> > error: No device selected/specified or that supports this
>> > functionality.
>> >   $ hp-setup -i 192.168.0.5 <- found in the printer settings
>> > HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.16.3)
>> [massive snip]
>>
>> The manufacturer's website at
>> https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/supported_devices/
>> says you need to have at least 3.17.9 of hplip to have everything
>> supported on an HP Envy Photo 7855.  The older version you have
>> installed apparently doesn't do scanning, but it can print.  So it's
>> time to upgrade your hplip.  There's got to be something more recent;
>> that's kind of an older version AFAICT and I don't have ebuilds for
>> anything older than 3.18.6 here.  Hey, at least you don't need the
>> proprietary hplip-plugin package!
>>
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