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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:27:44PM +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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> 2013/12/11 Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> |
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> > |
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> > My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up |
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> > & the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. |
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> > I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. |
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> > |
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> > The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. |
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> Regarding HP printers and hplip, I recommend buying a printer which does |
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> not require a binary plugin [1]. First they are a source of trouble and |
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> second the binary plugins are not supported by Gentoo which means there is |
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> no maintainer for a plugin ebuild [2]. Plugin installation currently is not |
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> under contol of the package manager and hplip tries to automagically |
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> download and install the plugin which often fails. |
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I never came to like Ink-squirters. All the mess with dried up print |
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heads, planned-obsolescence and ink more expensive than blood. |
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I am also quite tired of hplip. At some point foo2zjs was masked in |
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portage (never bothered finding out why), so I had to migrate. Hplip is |
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just another thing that puts itself into the tray, but needs cups |
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nonetheless. The download of the printer plugin (or rather, its |
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installation) fails b/c it needs python 2, but doesn't explicitly state |
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that. So if you have python 3 as your system version, the python script |
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fails. |
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I have a laserjet 1000, bought in 2004, it's even still got the original |
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cartridge. It may not be fast and has no duplex mode, but it suits my |
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needs. |
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Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ |
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Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. |
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The best camouflage is the truth: nobody will believe it anyway! |
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