HP ENVY Photo 7855

Herminio Hernandez Jr. herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 20:22:00 MST 2018


Glad you got it working. 

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> On Oct 30, 2018, at 8:11 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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