If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ. You will have to register
before you can post. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
Please do not use the CODE tag when pasting content that contains formatting (colored, bold, underline, italic, etc).
The CODE tag displays all content as plain text, including the formatting tags, making it difficult to read.
Just download/burn the LiveCD .iso and give it a try. If it all works when running from the LiveCD, it is reasonably certain that it will do so if installed.
Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
Go to http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install_wizard/index.html
Select your Linux distro and version. (Ubuntu, then 10.4 or what ever)
3. For printer type, select "Photosmart/Photosmart Pro"
4. For printer model, select "HP Photosmart Premium All-in-one Printer Series - xxxx" (look for YOUR model number)
At this point it will probably tell you that Kubuntu (Ubuntu) already supports your printer. It does. Just run Synaptic and install HPLIP.
Or, continue on and...
5. Click Next to download HPLIP (even if it tells you your distro includes a version that supports your printer)
6. Click Next again to download.
7. Click the Download HPLIP button.
8. Follow the instructions, which will be to run the file you downloaded:
sh hplip-3.10.2.run
Don't run as root or with sudo. It will ask for your password later. Among other things, the setup script installs all the needed packages, including XSane for scanning.
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
If I read him right he is stating that the printer does not work with the two laptops which are running Windows.
If so, then he should find the XP/VISTA/Win7 (?) driver for it out on the HP website.
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
I think I did not explain myself, after the advice on here and after looking at the HP website I can install a driver which will work with Kubuntu. But my partner and my son both run windo$e on their laptops, what I am trying to find out if there would be a conflict when trying to print off my Kubuntu machine when there is also two laptops running windo$e linked to the wirless printer.
If I am here, then I am there and if I am there then I am here.
Should not be. The router serves only as the link to the device. The drivers to the device exist on the PCs themselves.
Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
I have a Samsung ML-1210 laser printer connected to a wireless print server via a USB cable and I have a small ethernet cat 5 cable connecting the wireless print server to the back of my Wireless router. The printer is set up ad hoc with an IP address of 192.168.1.99. My wireless router starts dispensing IP addresses beginning with 192.168.1.100, so it doesn't matter what order things are turned on, the printer doesn't step on any PCs IP address and a PC cannot step on the printer's IP address.
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
Your thanks is premature ... I misunderstood the question!
He was asking if connecting Kubuntu to the wireless printer would interfere with his two Windows boxes connecting wirelessly, that is, IF I got it right this time!
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
Your thanks is premature ... I misunderstood the question!
He was asking if connecting Kubuntu to the wireless printer would interfere with his two Windows boxes connecting wirelessly, that is, IF I got it right this time!
Thanks GreyGeek, that is correct.
If I am here, then I am there and if I am there then I am here.
Comment