HPLIP is an HP developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser based printers in Linux. HPLIP is free, open source software distributed under the MIT, BSD, and GPL license. HP does not provide formal consumer or commercial support for this software.
The HPLIP project provides printing support for 1,437 printer models, including Deskjet, Officejet, Photosmart, PSC (Print Scan Copy), Business Inkjet, LaserJet, Edgeline MFP, and LaserJet MFP. For a list of supported printing devices click here
Features include,
- Printing to 1,437 HP printers, including Deskjet, Officejet, Photosmart, PSC, Business Inkjet and LaserJet. (For a complete list, please see Supported Devices).
- High quality photo printing.
- Full-bleed printing.
- Automatic duplexing (on equiped printers).
- Scanning from compatible Officejet, PSC, Photosmart, and LaserJet MFPs.
- Automatic document feeder (ADF) scanning.
- A Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) compatible interface.
- Color and B&W scanning.
- PC send fax utility.
- Send fax address book.
- Photo card access utility.
- Device manager (toolbox) with maintenance tools, supplies levels, and status information.
- USB, network, and parallel connection types.
- Full integration with CUPS.
- PPD file provided for Postscript-only laser printers.
- Command line utilities for many often needed tasks.
- A simple setup utility.
- Automated Installer.
To install in openSUSE (openSUSE 11.0 here)
opensuse11:~ # yast2 –install hplip hplip-hpijs
This should install HPLIP for you on your openSUSE and a menu item for HP Device Manager under “Application – System – Monitor”
Click on HP Device Manager to install and administer the HP print/scan/fax devices.
The command line equivalent is
opensuse11:~ # hp-setup
There is a system tray utility available which can be started as
opensuse11:~ # hp-systray
HPLIP home page has good documentation on add HP devices and managing under HP Device manager. Unfortunately, I do not have a HP Printer to test with me.
And using the “Find Manually” button I was able to create an entry for it; however, after selecting a PPD file and clicking “Finish” I see the following messages:
Following the Troubleshooting section of the Help file from hp-setup, I reviewed /var/log/messages, where I see the following when I disconnect/reconnect the device:
Apparently the file /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat contains no matching entry for the F2210 device as it is reported to USB 1.1.1 (Deskjet F2200 series). Examining that file, I see the following entries that appear to be pertinent:
I tried duplicating each of these entries with the headers [Deskjet_F2200_series] and [Deskjet_F2210_series] but when rerunning hp-setup I get results like
Any suggestions on how to proceed from here would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Leslie
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