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2013/12/11 Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> |
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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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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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[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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Regards |
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Daniel |
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