I found HPLIP was already installed. I added HPIJS for good measure. I was able to select a driver "HP Officejet Pro K550 hpijs, 3.15.2”.
The printer is still “not responding.” I didn’t see HPLIP mentioned anywhere in the driver choices. _________ Details follow. Selected the driver and asked for a test page: Description: HP Officejet Pro K550 Device URI: dnssd://K550._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/ <dnssd://K550._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/> Make and Model: HP Officejet Pro K550 hpijs, 3.15.2 Result: Processing - The printer is not responding. Printer’s light is green, and it’s working from the Macbook. I notice that the printer icon doesn’t show in the taskbar. Tried printer-make “Generic (recommended)”: There are ESC/P, GDI, IBM-Compatible, OAKT, PCL*, PDF, PostScript*, Raw Queue, text-only and ZjStream. I chose PCL 3 (recommended). Two drivers are offered: Foomatic and K550 hpijs, 3.15.2 [en]. I chose the hpijs. Print Test Page —> Connecting to Printer —> not responding. Same as before. __________________ On Feb 20, 2016, at 10:59:13, Brian Cluff <br...@snaptek.com> wrote: Do you have hplip installed? That printer is reported to "Work Perfectly" on the list of supported printers. http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-OfficeJet_Pro_K550 It says: "For basic printing functionality use the HPIJS driver . For advanced functionality such as printer status, maintenance features, scanning and photo card unload use the HPLIP driver (which includes HPIJS)." Brian Cluff On 02/20/2016 10:44 AM, Victor Odhner wrote: > Keith wrote: "/HP is very good about providing drivers for their > printers/.” Not necessarily so, after they weary of supporting it. > > We have an HP OfficeJet K550, a nice printer that’s working well but > maybe as much as 10 years old. My recently installed Mint system doesn’t > show the K550; it comes up with a different printer’s name, labeled as > “recommended,” and that driver doesn’t work: it finds the printer but > when I try to print it declares that it is not connected. > > My Macbook has no problem finding it and printing. My son’s Win10 uses > the PCL3 Class Driver and works OK for plain text, but Win10 can’t find > a K550 driver. He says that HP has removed drivers and other support for > this printer, which is at “end of support”. > > I did find this: > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_pro_k550.html > … which claims to have have a K550 driver. > > I haven’t tried to figure out how hplip works, since I can move > documents to my DropBox and print from the Macbook. > ___________ > > On Feb 20, 2016, at 09:12:48, Brian Cluff <br...@snaptek.com > <mailto:br...@snaptek.com>> wrote: > > On 02/20/2016 06:49 AM, Keith Smith wrote: >> I have not researched how to configure the print to fax and how to scan >> using Linux... not sure it will work in these capacities with Linux. > > In my experience it is very likely that you WOULD be able to scan with > an HP all-in-one. HP is very good about providing drivers for their > printers. > > Brian Cluff > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > <mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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