Re: hp psc printer/scanners

Thanks Rick I shall check it out.


Rick Miles wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>While thinking of a previous discussion with Ray Christie on this list I 
>thought I'd note for him a package I just tried out with my hp psc-2355.
>
>It is hplip and it is developed to replace both hpijs (print drivers) and hpoj 
>(scanner interface). 
>
>It was well worth the bother of installing and as long as I made sure 
>dependencies were on board and that I started up hplip before CUPS.
>
>Hplip also provides a gui interface for accessing printer utilities, scanner, 
>and digital camera cards written in python with the qt toolkit. Fax 
>functionality has yet to be included.
>
>I can still install/manage printers via CUPS and I notice that both b/w and 
>colour printing speed and quality has improved considerably compared to CUPS 
>with my current hpijs package
>
>While it was written with slackware in mind the following link should provide 
>all the info needed to install it by hand.
>
>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.hpofficejet.devel/2113
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