On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:27:44PM +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2013/12/11 Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> > > > > My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up > > & the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. > > I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. > > > > The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. > > Regarding HP printers and hplip, I recommend buying a printer which does > not require a binary plugin [1]. First they are a source of trouble and > second the binary plugins are not supported by Gentoo which means there is > no maintainer for a plugin ebuild [2]. Plugin installation currently is not > under contol of the package manager and hplip tries to automagically > download and install the plugin which often fails.
I never came to like Ink-squirters. All the mess with dried up print heads, planned-obsolescence and ink more expensive than blood. I am also quite tired of hplip. At some point foo2zjs was masked in portage (never bothered finding out why), so I had to migrate. Hplip is just another thing that puts itself into the tray, but needs cups nonetheless. The download of the printer plugin (or rather, its installation) fails b/c it needs python 2, but doesn't explicitly state that. So if you have python 3 as your system version, the python script fails. I have a laserjet 1000, bought in 2004, it's even still got the original cartridge. It may not be fast and has no duplex mode, but it suits my needs. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. The best camouflage is the truth: nobody will believe it anyway!
