HP ENVY Photo 7855

[Michael]

if anyone is interested this is the command I issued:
cd ~/Downloads/ && chmod +x hplip-3.18.9.run && ./hplip-3.18.9.run


On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:22 PM Herminio Hernandez Jr. <
herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Glad you got it working.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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