[Nottingham] Choosing a Printer

[Martin]

On 26/03/12 13:39, Jason Irwin wrote:
> The 6500A arrived this morning.  After installing an HPLIP PPA to get
> version 3.11 of the drivers (still a point version behind what HP
> offer), it recognised the printer (original Ubuntu 10.10 HPLIP did not).
>  Had to manually install and run "hplip-gui" to get everything set-up as
> the normal Ubuntu printer wizard thing didn't spot the fax facility.  It
> all seems to we working right out of the box.
> 
> Guess I should submit a "it works" report to openprinting...

Good stuff. It's nice when something 'just simply works'.


... And are you /really/ going to be using an old fashioned *fax* ?!
I've had that facility available for years and it's seen use perhaps
every other 2 years or so for a few pages...

We've got this old-fangled stuff instead called email ;-)

Cheers,
Martin

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