HP Deskjet 5650 Not on apsfilter's interal list. Went to HP, their driver is like 16MEG dnld. GAAAAaagh! (dialup only, 24 kbaud)
Anyone had similar experience? Maybe theres a configfile or a [.o] file for this?
(even if not, I can still print in WinDoze)
Tried the ghostscript generic, printer freaked out. There are a lot of HP's on apsfilter.... Is it safe to just try them until one works? Or would that be just a dumb thing to do?From linuxprinting.org: recommended driver is hplip, also the only working driver...
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From linuxprinting.org: recommended driver is hplip, also the only working driver...
Blecch, HPLIP is bloated. I dnlded the 16Mb hplip, and it wants python in order to compile. I'm currently dnlding the 12.8Mb python...
As far as you know, has anyone here compiled hplip on DSL?
I remember attempting it for one of my HP deskjets...lots of dependencies, etc.. My problem ended up being more related lack of power through the USB port, so I got it working another way.
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Juanito compiled one:
...can't say it was an unmitigated sucess - cupsys, python, perl, qt, gs-eps (and more) are all required and hplip loads hpijs just for good measure.
I can get printing working on both my laptop (1.6GHz cpu) and a desktop (267MHz cpu) but after while I can no longer print from the desktop and the cups admin page does not refresh.
...still working on it, but it's painfulNext Page...
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