I know an unfriendly printer. Helping a friend install Ubuntu on her computer I experienced problems with the hp Deskjet 3653 printer. It was not automatically detected by Ubuntu versions Breezy (5.10) or Gusty(7.10). When I replaced the hp Deskjet 3653 with a hp Deskjet 6112, however, it was automatically detected, and printed the test page successfully.
I found a work around for the hp Deskjet 3653 printer on Ubuntu forums, [url]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsPrintersHp%5B/url%5D%C2%A0 (see last line below*), but it did not work for me. I found other posts complaining about the 3653. For example this on from IAmMe1, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4321732#post4321732, "I know this is a somewhat common problem, but I can't find a good solution that works for me... My HP DeskJet 3653 won't print. First of all, I have the printer connected to a USB port in the back of my box, but when I try to add a printer, the printer doesn't show up under detected printers. I manually select a location, then select the hpijs driver. There seem to be no other problems, until I try to print... It says that the printer has a job, but it's not doing anything. Any ideas on how to solve this?"
Make: HP Model: DeskJet 3650 Driver: hpijs Supported: No Works: Yes Version: v5.04 (Hoary) & v5.10 (Breezy) *Not detected. Have to choose it from the list in Gnome printer install.
Michael Morgan [email protected]
There's a difference between "unfriendly" and "not automatically detected". If you want unfriendly, look to lexmark. As I understand it, they actively fought to keep linux from working with their printers a while back. A little bit of thinking every once in a while is a good thing. It keeps our brains from shrinking during evolution. Setting up a printer isn't something you do to the same printer and computer on a daily basis. It's OK if you have to dust off the keyboard to do it.
And the hpijs driver isn't always the best pick for hp's despite its "(recommended)" suffix in cups. I've got an HP printer that breaks one page into about 40 if using hpijs, but works fine with gutenprint-ijs. If the manufacturer isn't going to support their printer, give all the matching printer drivers a shot, because it can make a difference
On Feb 13, 2008 2:02 AM, Michael Morgan [email protected] wrote:
I know an unfriendly printer. Helping a friend install Ubuntu on her computer I experienced problems with the hp Deskjet 3653 printer. It was not automatically detected by Ubuntu versions Breezy (5.10) or Gusty(7.10). When I replaced the hp Deskjet 3653 with a hp Deskjet 6112, however, it was automatically detected, and printed the test page successfully.
I found a work around for the hp Deskjet 3653 printer on Ubuntu forums, [url]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsPrintersHp%5B/url] (see last line below*), but it did not work for me. I found other posts complaining about the 3653. For example this on from IAmMe1, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4321732#post4321732, "I know this is a somewhat common problem, but I can't find a good solution that works for me... My HP DeskJet 3653 won't print. First of all, I have the printer connected to a USB port in the back of my box, but when I try to add a printer, the printer doesn't show up under detected printers. I manually select a location, then select the hpijs driver. There seem to be no other problems, until I try to print... It says that the printer has a job, but it's not doing anything. Any ideas on how to solve this?"
Make: HP Model: DeskJet 3650 Driver: hpijs Supported: No Works: Yes Version: v5.04 (Hoary) & v5.10 (Breezy) *Not detected. Have to choose it from the list in Gnome printer install.
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On Feb 13, 2008 8:23 AM, Billy Crook [email protected] wrote:
There's a difference between "unfriendly" and "not automatically detected". If you want unfriendly, look to lexmark. As I understand
I would include the Canon Pixma multifunctions in the unfriendly category. I have an MP450 and had to get a 3rd party closed driver to support the scanner and everything.
I maybe could have made it work given time, but I needed both the printer and scanner up and running in about 2 hours.
(Of course, this was a few months ago and the whole support/non-support may have changed.)
Even with that, if I need something to look "just so", it's better to hook it up to my Windows laptop instead of my Linux desktop.
On Wed, February 13, 2008 02:02, Michael Morgan wrote:
I know an unfriendly printer. Helping a friend install Ubuntu on her computer I experienced problems with the hp Deskjet 3653 printer.
Did you try this?
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