My home printer is an HP DeskJet 960c, which I have connected to a network print server. So, I have to go through the process of adding a printer. I looked up what it will take to download and install the driver by going to hp.com. Turns out that Red Hat doesn't have an automatic installer. It's pretty much a build from source thing.
So, I'm going to just try to install the printer and see what happens.
- Click on my Red Hat menu, select System > Preferences > More Preferences > Control Center
- Under Administration, double click on Printing
- Click on New Printer
- In the dialog that comes up, enter a name, a description and a location, then click on Forward:
- Next, on the dialog that comes up, select Internet Printing Protocol (ipp), and enter the IP address of the printer, then click Forward:
- Of course, since I'm going to be installing an HP printer, I pick HP from the next dialog and click Forward.
- On the next dialog, I select the printer, and then leave the recommended driver, and then click on Forward:
- The system tells me it's going to create a printer, so I click Apply.
Nothing. No printing. On further review, the support site for this driver says that network printing is not supported. Maybe that's why it's not printing.
I'm going to have to do some research and then come back to this later. I'll update this post when I do.
UPDATE!
Well, I played some more, and instead of using the IPP protocol, I tried AppSocket/HP Jetdirect, entered my IP, accepted the default port, and tested it. IT WORKED!
Lesson Learned: When using a network print server connected directly to your printers parallel port, try AppSocket/HP JetDirect.
BTW: I'm not "closing" this post until I get to try it from outside the home. I have everything setup to do it, and I can do it from Windows. I just want to add another printer with the right address and port, then try it from the road. Probably not a big deal....
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I have given up on HP.
I had a 3 year old HP Color Laserjet 1500 printer that used a host-based print driver. Before my move to Linux, I had XP x64 installed. Tried to install the driver - none available. Tried every known work-around. No dice. Eventually decided to give Vista a try (x32, by the way). HP's advice for a driver.... a trade-up program to buy a new printer from them at a discounted price.
Excuse me????
I can print to a 20 year old Laserjet II from XP 64 and Vista, but not my 3 year old printer because HP doesn't feel like writing a driver for it????
I'm sorry but that's unacceptable. HP and I (as the consumer) have a tacit agreement that I will invest in their product and they will provide reasonable support. Drivers for the latest, most widely-distributed OS is not an unreasonable expectation.
Oh yeah - and forget printing from Linux (even with foo2oak or whatever it was).
I now own a Samsung Color Laser printer that was a third of the cost of the HP, prints perfectly, and has a kick-butt driver installer for Linux and any other OS you might run.
HP can kiss my you-know-what.
Cheers,
Lexrst
Sorry to hear about your printing woes. I have the same issue with my HP Scanner. My wife's computer is Vista, and there is no Vista support. I guess you have to remove support for something eventually.
That's one of the things I'm going to try to tackle here--scanning.
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