[Ilugc] Configuring HP Printers using HPLIP

[Girish Venkatachalam]

On 23:00:32 May 03, Ramanathan Muthaiah wrote:
> Dear ilugc-ians,
> 
> I recently bought a HP printer (multi-function F4185) and took the
> adventurous path of configuring the device in my home system running
> Fedora 5 (running kernel v2.6.15-1, I know it's quite old).
> 
> After having trouble to make HPLIP work in my system, posted query on
> their mailing list but it seems am getting the basic installation of
> HPLIP not correct (as per their feedback).
> 
> FWIW, am trying to insall HPLIP from the latest source.
> 
> Is there anyone on this mailing list who have had successes with HPLIP
> installation and setup in using HP printers ?

Why don't you try the much easier postscript printing?

Do you have a particular reason you want to use HP's driver?

There are some amazing postscript highlighting/formatting tools in
linux.

I once took a printout of C code and RFC documents for offline reading
and my printout had so much sex appeal since I knew how to use a2ps(1).
;)

-Girish