[Tfug] HPLIP

[Jim March]

What I'd recommend is, get the printer on a static IP address and then
link the printer to that address.  If the IP address of the printer
resets every time you reboot your router and cable modem, you'll go
slightly nuts :).

Jim

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Charles R. Kiss
<charles at kissbrothers.com> wrote:
>
> I use a Debian 5.03 kernel. I
>
> I purchased an HP 6500 Wireless Printer; not as interested in the wireless
> part as I am the price I paid a Costco, so I would like to keep it, but the
> automatic HPLIP configuration from the tarball I downloaded is not error
> free; but is the recommended  HPLIP version, and indeed contains the .ppd.
>
> Perhaps the USB is not being found, though lsusb sees it, and though I
> manually enter the address, see no response from HPLIP.
>
> Apparently, there are many configuration options with respect to
> dynamic/static .ppd installs, etc.
>
> Is it certain that if the automatic HPLIP can't select the proper options
> that no proper options exist- because perhaps it had tried every possible
> combination of all possible options (and I should find another printer for
> my desktop), or should I try to work this out because there is a reasonable
> chance, greater than 5%, I can get the printer to work perfectly, even
> wirelessly, because the problem is perhaps more basic than available options
> and as easy to resolve, with say a mouse-click.
>
> In other words, does the failure of the automatic installation process
> indicate a possibility of less than 5%, a human person of average reading
> level and computer skills, can decipher the cause of the failure and make
> the necessary correction?
>
> Thanks,
> Charles
>
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