Hello, Having to buy a new HP printer/scanner/copier I see an offer for an HP 2575 with HP wifi kit. I have two questions: * I have already an HP PSP 750. I _can't_ both print and scan (openSUSE 10.1). When I try to configure the scanner with Yast, I have a warning of compatibility problem. After that, no printer works anymore (scanner works). Is this because my printer is obsolete (and the driver never updated) or is this normal for HP? * will the HP wifi kit (both usb emitter and ethernet receiver, connected on the ethernet printer port) works with suse? thanks jdd NB: the (french) offer is here: http://shopping.kelkoo.fr/ssc-100052213-hp-psc-2575-wifi.html -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
jdd wrote:
Hello,
Having to buy a new HP printer/scanner/copier I see an offer for an HP 2575 with HP wifi kit.
I have two questions:
* I have already an HP PSP 750. I _can't_ both print and scan (openSUSE 10.1). When I try to configure the scanner with Yast, I have a warning of compatibility problem. After that, no printer works anymore (scanner works). Is this because my printer is obsolete (and the driver never updated) or is this normal for HP?
* will the HP wifi kit (both usb emitter and ethernet receiver, connected on the ethernet printer port) works with suse?
thanks jdd
NB: the (french) offer is here:
http://shopping.kelkoo.fr/ssc-100052213-hp-psc-2575-wifi.html
HP is the only vendor that really cares for Linux and they have an excellent Linux Support. For anything HP Printing and HP Multipurpose-Device related, refer to http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ There you might be especially interested to look up the section "supported devices" regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:39:05 +0200
Eberhard Roloff
HP is the only vendor that really cares for Linux and they have an excellent Linux Support.
For anything HP Printing and HP Multipurpose-Device related, refer to http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ There you might be especially interested to look up the section "supported devices"
I agree that HP does a good job supporting Linux especially at the high
end since Linux based servers is a big business for them.
But, I think that Brother and Epson tend also to work well with Linux.
Canon and Lexmark can't even pronounce Linux correctly.
--
Jerry Feldman
How do, On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 09:59 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I agree that HP does a good job supporting Linux especially at the high end since Linux based servers is a big business for them.
But, I think that Brother and Epson tend also to work well with Linux. Canon and Lexmark can't even pronounce Linux correctly.
Can't speak for Canon however, Lexmark has excellent Unix/Linux support. Support is limited to their high end printers, which you will need to shell out the big bucks for though ;-) I know the above, by having worked in Lexmark's Unix/Linux technical support dept. here in Lexington ;-) This BTW, is Lexmark International's headquarters. Have a nice day!! taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello, On Aug 2 11:17 taharka wrote (shortened):
Lexmark has excellent Unix/Linux support. Support is limited to their high end printers, which you will need to shell out the big bucks for though ;-)
Exactly as described at http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/LinuxSupportByPrint... But as far as I know there are no free PPD files public available for Lexmark PostScript printers. With "free" I mean of course "under a free license". See http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/SuggestedPrinters#H... and follow the link "PPD file ... here on linuxprinting.org." which points to http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/PPD/ where no Lexmark PPD files are available. If there were free PPD files for Lexmark PostScript printers, I would include them in our manufacturer-PPDs package which contains currently more than 1600 free PPD files for more than 900 different printer models from various printer manufacturers.
I know the above, by having worked in Lexmark's Unix/Linux technical support dept. here in Lexington ;-) This BTW, is Lexmark International's headquarters.
Perhaps you know the right contact persons which can make a decission to provide free PPD files for Lexmark PostScript printers. If you contact them, please point them to http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Information_for_Printer_Manufacturers_Regarding_L... in particular the section about "PostScript Printers". If they are interested, I would appreciate it to get in contact with people at Lexmark who are interested in out-of-the-box support for their PostScript printers via Linux distributors. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Having to buy a new HP printer/scanner/copier I see an offer for an HP 2575 with HP wifi kit.
I have two questions:
* I have already an HP PSP 750. I _can't_ both print and scan (openSUSE 10.1). Are you using hplip? I had no problem doing both with my PSC 2175 with 10.1. I assume you meant PSC 750, which according to http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/combined.html is supported. When I try to configure the scanner with Yast, I have a warning of compatibility problem. After that, no printer works anymore (scanner works). Is this because my printer is obsolete (and the driver never updated) or is this normal for HP? Not at all. IMO they are presently the best at Linux support for their
On 08/02/2007 03:29 PM, jdd wrote: printers.
* will the HP wifi kit (both usb emitter and ethernet receiver, connected on the ethernet printer port) works with suse?
I've no idea. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu 2 August 2007 11:51:03 Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Are you using hplip? I had no problem doing both with my PSC 2175 with 10.1. I assume you meant PSC 750, which according to http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/combined.html is supported.
I can confirm this - I set a PSC 750 up in about 10 minutes the other day, and it works perfectly. - (su) rchplip start - run HP Toolbox to set up the printer (K -> System -> Monitor -> hp-toolbox) - I didn't bother using YaST for this, but could have - run YaST -> Hardware -> Scanner to set up the scanner (it wasn't detected, so it had to be added manually - just choose the model from the list) - press Scan on the HP Toolbox - in the new window, press Scan - select Color and 300dpi for best results - the scan will be saved to out.pnm by default - choose an alternative if necessary - run "pnmtotiff out.pnm > out.tif" to convert to tiff format - run "tesseract out.tif out.txt" to OCR the output into out.txt (i'm using Tesseract for OCR, and the resulats are quite good) - you can also run the threshold tool over the scan in GIMP to increase the contrast, but this didn't seem to greatly increase the OCR accuracy -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly blog.thinkopen.co.uk - Me Myself Why? www.kyfieithu.co.uk - KDE yn Gymraeg www.klebran.org.uk - Gwirydd gramadeg rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello, On Aug 2 09:29 jdd wrote (shortened):
* I have already an HP PSP 750.
I never heard about such a model. Please ask HP via http://hplip.sourceforge.net/mailing_lists.html regarding support for "PSP" models.
I _can't_ both print and scan (openSUSE 10.1). When I try to configure the scanner with Yast, I have a warning of compatibility problem.
I don't know what you mean. Without the exact message nobody can know what you are talking about. There is a help text and there are messages regarding the old "PTAL" versus the new "HPLIP". In case of doubt prefer "HPLIP". Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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