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Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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> 2013/12/11 Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net |
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> <mailto: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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> > The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. |
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> > Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? |
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> > |
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> Regarding HP printers and hplip, I recommend buying a printer which |
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> does not require a binary plugin [1]. First they are a source of |
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> trouble and second the binary plugins are not supported by Gentoo |
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> which means there is no maintainer for a plugin ebuild [2]. Plugin |
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> installation currently is not under contol of the package manager and |
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> hplip tries to automagically download and install the plugin which |
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> often fails. |
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> [1] http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/plugin.html |
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> [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352439 |
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> -- |
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> Regards |
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> Daniel |
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I been using hplip for a long time. I never had any issue installing |
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it. The only bug I ever had was when it would lock up and not work. I |
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went back to a older version and hit the next update. It worked fine. |
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I guess my mileage varies. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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