| On Thursday 05 March 2009 18:36:50 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 21:40:37 Rick Miles wrote: > > I have never been able to use the hplip frontend with networked printers. > > Its a nice utility but it seems to be intended for standalone machines. I > > haven't looked since upgrading my server about a year ago but previously > > I had made some inqueries on the hplip lists but never recieved any > > answers about using hplip on a network. > > My printer is an HP all-in-one, and is networked via a wireless connection. > I have to install hplip on each machine that wants to access it, but after > that it works perfectly. I can scan either from the hp tool or from > applications that support scanning. > > The only thing I had to do was find out what address the printer was using. > On some boxes the utility could find it, but on others I had to give it the > IP - I suspect that this depends on the version installed by the distro. > However, once I'd done that, it worked perfectly. > Interesting, Thanks for the info Is that networked as in via cups server on another box or networked directly to the hp-psc? I just go the sane route without hplip plus had to make users members of group lp. Slack doesn't do much of that by default but I prefer to do my own configs and I'm old fashioned, the less moving parts the better. > > client.conf to /etc/cups to point the machine at the server so I could > > check out an hp-930c to make sure it was functional. > > > > It worked well enough for what I wanted to do with thay printer but I > > never set up the psc-2355 which would have allowed me to scan on one box > > only and in any case I have always prefered an integrated desktop which > > to me means kde-aps on a kde desktop > > Your choice, of course. > > Anne Cheers, http://turtlespond.net http://rickmiles.com.au |
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