Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: printers compatible with Gnu&Linux

On 06/08/2013 08:49 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> On 06/07/2013 03:48 PM, Luuk wrote:
> > On 07-06-2013 21:30, Stefan Gruber wrote:
> > > Tom Davies schrieb am Freitag, 7. Juni 2013 12:33:
> > > > Does anyone know of companies that do product-lines that are easily
> > > > compatible with Gnu&Linux?
> > >
> > > Look at Kyocera TASKalfa Series...
> >
> > fifteen years ago, Kyocera was crap.....
> > I sure hope they improved their stuff since that time.
> I think I have seen this brand here in the Northeast USA.
> HP is one of the major brands for the "big" office printer, copier, 
> fax, collating, stapling and multi-tray office machine. There are 
> others, but so far it seems that the driver for Ubuntu with "HP CUPS" 
> has the most printer tray and paper/envelope sizes/styles of all of 
> the other brands of printers I have tried on my system.
>
> I really think the key will be which brand and model of "big office 
> printer" has the best driver, with the most options, for Linux. That 
> is in the subject line after all.  I have had [and have] some nice 
> printers that currently have no proper Linux driver[s].  My HP 7000 
> wide format will print letter size [8.5 by 11 inches] but will not 
> print the 11 by 17 inch paper, for which I bought it.  I have to use 
> my Win7 "boot" of my dual booting laptop to use that printer.
EDIT

I just got the HP 7000 printer to work with Ubuntu.  Current driver from 
HP's Linux site is "3.13.5"

The Ubuntu 12.04 repository has version "3.12.2" so I installed or 
reinstalled;
hplip
hplip-gui
hplip-cups
printer-driver-hpijs
printer-driver-hpcups
hplip-ppds
and all of their associated packages.

Now it works.  It seems that the newest version that HP's Linux driver 
page does not want to work, or I needed one or more of the listed 
packages that were not installed by doing "sh hplip-3-13-5.run".



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