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From: Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:36:59
Message-Id: 4BA3E01D.8020904@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro by Philip Webb
1 Philip Webb schrieb am 19.03.2010 06:20:
2 > 100318 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
3 >>> hpcups
4 >> Is the new printer driver which replaces the hpijs driver.
5 >>> hpijs
6 >> See above.
7 >
8 > Well, I replaced 'hpijs' with 'hpcups' & my printer wouldn't work,
9 > so I restored 'hpijs' & dropped 'hpcups' & all was ok.
10 > It's an ancient Deskjet 500C with the b+w '500' driver.
11 > Installed versions: Cups-1.3.11-r1 Hplip-3.9.12-r1 (both stable).
12 >
13 > Any comments or helpful suggestions ?
14 >
15
16 As you sad it is a very old model and already reached "End of support" [1]
17 state. Hpcups is the new driver and I guess such old models are not supported by
18 the new driver. Just use the hpijs driver then. The hpijs driver wont disappear
19 from hplip in the near future.
20
21 [1] http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_500c.html
22
23 --
24 Daniel Pielmeier

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