Re: Any CentOS 5.6 friendly ink jet printers?
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 21:54 -0500, Mark Stodola wrote: On 09/16/2011 09:21 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, I have a sweet old duffer on CentOS 5.6, x32 with an HP DJ 6940 printer on the USB bus. CUPS like to put it offline a lot, which frustrates the two of us. Have you tried using the hplip drivers from hp? (They're standard with SL) I use it for my older hp7140 as well as an old business inkjet 3000 and it work like a dream. For Linux comaptible hp printers do a google search for hplip and go to the hplip site (part of hp) and find the list of supported printers.
Any CentOS 5.6 friendly ink jet printers?
Hi All, I have a sweet old duffer on CentOS 5.6, x32 with an HP DJ 6940 printer on the USB bus. CUPS like to put it offline a lot, which frustrates the two of us. There is also no easy way to clean the heads (other than a dubious command line program). Can anyone recommend a Linux friendly ink jet? One with a front panel control to clean the thing? Must be CUPS friendly too. Many thanks, -T
Re: Any CentOS 5.6 friendly ink jet printers?
On 09/16/2011 09:21 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, I have a sweet old duffer on CentOS 5.6, x32 with an HP DJ 6940 printer on the USB bus. CUPS like to put it offline a lot, which frustrates the two of us. There is also no easy way to clean the heads (other than a dubious command line program). Can anyone recommend a Linux friendly ink jet? One with a front panel control to clean the thing? Must be CUPS friendly too. Many thanks, -T I've been using HP exclusively for years with SL. USB going offline has been a problem in the past, and there are scripts to help with it (newer cups version handle things more gracefully). Currently I've been using HP Officejet 7000WF printers over ethernet with extremely good luck. They provide a web interface to perform all of the Windows driver functions, as well as a few buttons on the front to print diagnostics and initiate head cleanings. -Mark
