Re: HP OfficeJet G85 and PLC5

Jens Lehmann <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:49:44 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.hpofficejet.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Jens Lehmann wrote:
> 
>>Currently I use hpoj 0.91 on Debian 3.1 and have no printing problems
>>except the one described above. (I know that there is hplip, but as long
>>as the printserver does not work I still use the parallel port.)
> 
> 
> HPOJ is not supported any more by HP and by most distributions. Please
> upgrade to HPLIP from your distro or from http://hpinkjet.sf.net/  If
> your problem still persists after completely removing HPOJ and setting
> up HPLIP, please post here.

I upgraded to HPLIP. I was able to succesfully set up my printer if I
connect it by USB cable with my PC. Of course the problem I described
persists. If I understand correctly I somehow need to update the
firmware of the printer to make it PCL5 capable. Is this possible? And
if yes: how can it be done?

Jens



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