I just downloaded HP's printer-utility software for my old Officejet 6110xi all-in-one printer, using the hplip instructions. It all seemed to go normally, fine. But, when I looked in System Settings' Printer "module," it had very little information, nothing like the exact same software installed in my Mint 17.1/Rebecca (10.10), which has fairly typically complete HP software configurability, as one would find in Windows. For example, in my Kubuntu installation, clicking the Maintenance dropdown button--just one button for maintenance, nothing more--, it gave me simply the option of printing a test page--period, nothing else! I searched the KDE Documentation manual and found virtually nothing. What am I missing? Regular Ubuntu's installation of hplip is very detailed, allowing very detailed settings and even a graphical display of how full the cartridges are. This simply doesn't seem like KDE or Ubuntu. I'll appreciate any help I can get. Thanks.
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Just a quick check on one detail, do you have hplip-gui installed (it's in Muon Package Manager)?
For scanning, you'll need xsane.
/usr/bin/hp-toolbox should be included with hplip-gui (installed files).An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski -
Hmm. I didn't, but I do now. But I don't see any difference in the printer software. Hplip and HP Sane were installed and have Kubuntu icons on them. The hplip gui entry did not and, now that it's installed, does not have that icon. Does that mean that Kubuntu doesn't support it? And, yes, /user/bin/hp-toolbox is there.
Another question: why doesn't holding down Dolphin's back or forward button yield a dropdown list of pages that one can jump to any one of which?Last edited by RLynwood; Mar 15, 2015, 03:00 PM.Comment
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Looks like your printer is fully supported,
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web...officejet.html
http://hplipopensource.com/node/295
(And the printer is on, for detection?)
You might indicate precisely what kind of actions or maintenance you'd like to perform.
The hplip Toolbox has lots of menus, though you might have to poke around some.An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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For Dolphin, I enable the location bar, and that guides me in navigating.
Configure Dolphin > Startup > Editable location bar and Show full path inside location barAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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Yep, it's supported, alright, and, yes, it's on. (Actually, it's off now; I turned it off now that I don't need it to be on.) But I followed HP's instructions for turning it off--unplugging it--then turning it back on--replugging it--for it to detect it. And I identified it properly. That is, as I said, I followed all of the installation instructions.
Describing precisely what all is missing is totally inappropriate. The Ubuntu utility has a large window with about five-eight items in the left panel. Clicking each one yields a right panel that has multiple tabs across the top, and, with any one clicked, selected, shows a whole page of information and options, gazillions of details. Kubuntu's has virtually nothing. Notice what I said in my original post about Maintenance: There's only one button, and, clicked, it yields a single option, printing a test page. How is that maintenance?
I think you're right, that finding a display for that toolbox is the solution. But how to do that? It isn't in System Settings/Printers, where I believe it should be (that's where it is in Ubuntu), and it doesn't appear--oops, I think I know where the problem is. I've clicked the entry Device Manager in the context menu of the System Tray HP icon, and nothing happens. Somehow that isn't activated. Also, left-clicking that icon yields nothing.
I see another, almost certainly related problem with it: Clicking on Settings in the System Tray's HP icon's context menu yields a window labeled HP Device Manager. It's middle section, Devices to monitor, is blanked out; I can't enter anything in there. I guess I'll have to check with the hplip people about this.Last edited by RLynwood; Mar 15, 2015, 04:05 PM.Comment
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"Configure Dolphin > Startup > Editable location bar and Show full path inside location bar"
I did see this and have used it, but I guess I'm so habituated to using the back and forward buttons that I keep forgetting simply to click on the path item I want to go to.Comment
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I thought hplip-gui did provide the toolbox display.I think you're right, that finding a display for that toolbox is the solution. But how to do that?
Open Konsole, type: hp-toolbox
Or,
Enter the gui toolbox in the Kickoff menu:
rt-click on K, Edit applications, for Command, use the path you get from Muon:
/usr/bin/hp-toolbox
Under System,
New Item
General Tab
Name: HPLIP Toolbox
Desc.: Printer Toolbox
Comment: anything
Command: /usr/bin/hp-toolbox
Advanced Tab: not necessary to use for nowLast edited by Qqmike; Mar 15, 2015, 05:14 PM.An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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Ah, I've got it. After jumping to this post and getting your responses, except this last one, which I just now saw, I realized that I had chosen to overwrite the existing hplip installation (K-Ubuntu comes with it without the Device Manager). It occurred to me that I should have chosen to remove and reinstall hplip. So, after returning from an extended errand, I just now did that; I reinstalled hplip, chosing to remove the old one and reinstalling the new one, and it worked. The Device Manager, with all of its detail, is there and accessible.
To your idea, Qqmike, I saw that near the end of the installation process, it asked me if I wanted the installation protocol to identify & install the printer via gui or cmd line. I chose gui (both times), and it popped up the window for doing so. That happened in the first installation, too, but I believe that, having overwritten the existing installation, somehow the Device Driver got precluded from being installed.
Just now I decided to follow your instructions. Entering hp-toolbox in the Konsole popped-up the Device Manager window/utility (now that it's there). But I got stopped at "for Command, use the path you get from Muon:
/usr/bin/hp-toolbox." I don't understand that, didn't see how that applied to the window that was up (I can't remember what it was now).
Wow! Thanks for showing me the menu editor. I've been looking for it, and it was right under my nose. I installed MenuLibre, which is a pain in the neck and which I'll remove forthwith.Last edited by RLynwood; Mar 15, 2015, 07:29 PM.Comment
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But I got stopped at "for Command, use the path you get from Muon:
/usr/bin/hp-toolbox." I don't understand that ...
Did you get it now? If not ...
To enter the gui toolbox in the Kickoff menu:
right-click on K, Edit applications.
Under System (from the menu of the left side bar),
New Item (at the top of the editor window)
Under General Tab, you'd have four entries:
Name: HPLIP Toolbox
Desc.: Printer Toolbox
Comment: anything
Command: /usr/bin/hp-toolbox
the Advanced Tab: not necessary to use for nowAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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Here's mine:Originally posted by RLynwood View Post
My printer has it's IP address fixed on the printer, and is connected to my router by Ethernet. Note that if your printer is wireless, and connects to a wireless router, from the perspective of Kubuntu it's a network printer, not a wireless one.
Can you click Device->Add device?
I seem to remember I used to have either a scanner device, or a scan action, but it's not there now. The scanner works if I start Skanlite or run hp-scan in konsole.Regards, John LittleComment
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Yeah, I just read your last part ... no scan option under actions. Or install xsane, maybe (it worked for me to get Scan to show up).An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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Yes, Qqmike, I installed xsane and the HP Device Manager now shows a scan action for the printer. I think I prefer skanlite for simple jobs, though. Sorry, OP, this doesn't help you much.Regards, John LittleComment
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OP likes words, and likes to learn this KDE stuff, right RLynwood?
(Actually, I was told OP is "original post," but I always use it to refer to the poster, too.)An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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No, I hadn't gotten the meaning of "for Command, use the path you get from Muon:
/usr/bin/hp-toolbox." Now, however, after reading your instructions, I see what you're telling me. That's really good to know. I'll store these instructions for the future. For now, they're unnecessary because the hplip protocol installed the Device Manager in the K menu in Utilities, the top of the Classic menu, which I prefer, and in Recently installed, together with a slew of graphically related programs having I believe to do with Xsane/scanning. It installed Gimp, too, which I removed, as I don't expect to be doing any graphical editing.
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