On Sunday 04 May 2008 04:21:00 Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 23:00:32 May 03, Ramanathan Muthaiah wrote: > > Dear ilugc-ians, > > > > I recently bought a HP printer (multi-function F4185) and took the > > adventurous path of configuring the device in my home system running > > Fedora 5 (running kernel v2.6.15-1, I know it's quite old). > > > > After having trouble to make HPLIP work in my system, posted query on > > their mailing list but it seems am getting the basic installation of > > HPLIP not correct (as per their feedback). > > > > FWIW, am trying to insall HPLIP from the latest source. > > > > Is there anyone on this mailing list who have had successes with HPLIP > > installation and setup in using HP printers ? > > Why don't you try the much easier postscript printing? > > Do you have a particular reason you want to use HP's driver? > > There are some amazing postscript highlighting/formatting tools in > linux. > > I once took a printout of C code and RFC documents for offline reading > and my printout had so much sex appeal since I knew how to use a2ps(1). > ;) > > -Girish > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe <password> <address>" > in the subject or body of the message. > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Special features of some printers may not work with a2ps... Also, if you have a combined printer-scanner, you'll pretty much need the hp drivers for the scanner - makes sense to go whole hog with it. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
