Re: Announce: hplip-0.8.2

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:11 -0500, Joe Piolunek wrote:
> On Monday 06 December 2004 07:18, Cory Meisch wrote:
> > Introducing HPLIP
> 
> hplip looks very promising. I hope that before long, it will include better 
> support for net-connected devices. For home use (printing from a wireless 
> laptop, for example), it's very convenient to have the all-in-one accessible 
> without having to turn on the computer it would otherwise depend on.
> 
> The docs should be more clear about what actually works/doesn't work yet, IMO.
> When I tried to follow the documentation for setting up printing,
> 'probe -bnet' wouldn't work. Apparently the '-bnet' option is unsupported. I 
> had to guess at the device string to enter in CUPS. After guessing that  
> hp:/net/Photosmart_2600_series?ip=(printer's LAN address) might work, I tried 
> it and it did.
> 
	You may need to temporarily stop your firewall. 

> I noticed that scanning over LAN is in the TODO list. I hope it will be added 
> soon. When I try to start xsane, it can't find the PSC's scanner. Using hpoj, 
> the scanner is accessible.
> 
	It is our high priority feature.

> /usr/hplip/toolbox starts up and mostly works. It can't access the PSC's 
> scanner, though.
> 
> '/etc/init.d/hplip start' returns 'OK' for hpiod and hpssd, but 'hplip status' 
> returns an incorrect answer:
> 
> ]# /etc/init.d/hplip status
> hpiod (pid 5566) is running...
> hpssd dead but pid file exists
> 
> But hpssd is actually running:
> ]# ps ax | grep hp
>  5566 ?        S      0:00 ./hpiod
>  5574 ?        S      0:00 python ./hpssd.py
> 
> 
	That is a defect we are working on.

> Regarding photocard access, I don't see a way to copy JPEGs to the card over 
> LAN. I hope it can be implemented.
	You can copy from the card but not to it. If you want to make it a r/w
system, you would need to mount the card as a USB mass storage device
but there was no easy way for us to do that at this time...

Cory

> 
> Thanks for working on this, hpinkjet folks.
> 
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