Re: [hpoj-devel] HP Officejet 5110

[Laurence <lau...@or...>]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 12:35 +0200, Guido Milanese wrote:
> > ==========================
> > Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:56:23 +0100
> > From: Laurence <Lau...@te...>
> > To: gui...@un...
> > Cc: hpo...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [hpoj-devel] HP Officejet 5110
> > ==========================
> > Hi again guido
> > 
> > my mistake the code for hplip is on sourceforge at
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/hpinkjet
> > 
> > laurence
> > 
> 
> Thank you very much indeed. I am answering offlist because from this computer
>  I cannot access my University mail account. I'm afraid I have not really understood.
>  The page of instruction I referred to says that for scanning I should use hpoj,
> while for printing they say to use hplip. 
> Do you say that hplip can be used also for scanning? 
> So, I should download the whole package -- not only the drivers -- and install it, right?
> But, before, should I *uninstall* or *remove* something else?
> Sorry, I am reasonably expert insofar as programming is concerned, 
> but for reasons probably hidden in my psychology I am always lost with any hardware problem! :-)
> 
> Best regards from a rainy Italy!
> guido m
> 
> Vocal Ensemble "Ars Antiqua", Genoa, Italy
> http://www.arsantiqua.org
> 
Hi Guido

the hplip package does the whole lot. scaning, printing, faxing, printer
management. It includes the hpijs interface for the inkjet printing and
links to the CUPS printing system. For scanning it links into the sane
interface so you can use GIMP or scandocument etc.

the downloaded tar file contains all the instructions for installation
etc.

as an example from the hplip_readme.html file:-

<quote>

You can download HPLIP here. The download includes the HPLIP source code
and a platform-independent automake/autoconf master makefile. The master
makefile will compile and install HPLIP. After downloading to your
directory use the following instructions.

tar xzvf hplip-0.8.x.tar.gz
cd hplip-0.8.x
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
/etc/init.d/hplip restart
If HPLIP built and installs correctly you should get the following
response. Note, our example assumes hpiod and hpssd were already
running. 
Stopping hpiod:                                            [  OK  ]
Stopping hpssd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting hpiod:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting hpssd:                                            [  OK  ]
Now we must restart cupsd in order to let CUPS see the new "hp"
backend. 
/etc/init.d/cups restart
 
</quote>

hope this helps. BTW hplip will run alongside hpoj & ptal if you need
them for other devices. so you don't need to uninstall anything.

Laurence