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disciple · Posted: Mon 29 Sep 2008, 18:23 Post subject:

Nice - works well. It will feel much better to point people to that than to the full hplip and all its dependencies Smile

I still can't figure out what hplip is supposed to add in terms of printing support though Rolling Eyes

sintot · Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 57 Location: Madrid

Hi:
I have an HP Photosmart C5280, that is supported with Hplip. If I install the full hplip (the "bloated" one), I can scan; but if I install hplip-lite (in another puppy installation), I can't scan. Do you know if some manual configuration is needed, or if my All-In-One is not supported by hplip-lite?

Thanks in advance

Edit: I've solved it adding "hpaio" in the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. Thanks for the hpliplite, it is a lot better than the bloated one!

lluamco · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Banyoles, Spain

Thanks sintot.
I agree that hpliplite is better: almost same functionality
and much less resources. I have a question for you. How did you install hpliplite?
Adding hpaio in the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf should be automatically done by petget.
It is strange that it was not in your case.
(Or did you untarred the package and manually copied the files?)
Cheers

sintot · Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 57 Location: Madrid

I think the problem was that I installed xsane (and sane-backend) after installing hpliplite

lluamco · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Banyoles, Spain

sintot · Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 57 Location: Madrid

As an addition to the hpliplite package, to check ink-cartridges levels, you can try inkgui:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=185221425&t=26407

lluamco · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Banyoles, Spain

Thanks sintot for the information about inkgui and its link, for checking the ink-cartridges levels.
I have found that it works in puppy 4.1rc provided one installs the attached library.

EDIT: First version of the attached file was not working. The present version should work.

exProphecy · Posted: Mon 13 Oct 2008, 23:19 Post subject:

I installed hpliplite and you said that the printer would be able to scan using xsane. I tried probing for it with xsane and it says "No devices available". It was able to print though. My HP printer is HP PSC 1315xi and it is connected with a USB. Can you assist me with this issue? Using Puppy 4.1 fyi.

EDIT: Nevermind, the USB from the printer got accidentally unplugged. Works great!

lluamco · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Banyoles, Spain

hpliplite updated to version 2.8.10.
See first post

JB4x4 · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 256

@lluamco

Will you be updating HPLIP (standard version) also??

JB

lluamco · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Banyoles, Spain

lluamco · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Banyoles, Spain

hplip updated to version 2.8.10.
See first post

seeker · Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 89 Location: Indiana, USA

Iluamco,

Thank you for packaging hplip, it has made my HP printer setup chores a breeze. I am using the full hplip 2.8.5 and when I try to use the menu "Device-Setup New Device" I get this error, "Unable to find an appropriate su/sudo utility to run hp-setup." Puppy has /bin/su, so is there a symlink that should be created somewhere?

Seeker

Edit: Sorry, posted too soon. I tried hp-setup at the command line and presto, there it was.

exProphecy · Posted: Mon 15 Dec 2008, 05:15 Post subject:

Hey I installed HPLIP lite and I went to the website (the one where we can see if it is supported). I did find my printer which is HP PSC 1315xi and says it is supported. Although, I installed HPLIP lite and looked for my printer when adding it in CUPs and did not find it. Am I doing something wrong? Or do I need the full HPLIP package?