Hello, On Oct 24 15:10 Martin Nopola wrote (shortened): > I went with the HP vote a month ago and bought an > HPLaserjet1018 from Tigerdirect for $130 without checking > the driver situation. > Much to my surprise the HP website said they don't support > Linux.
Why "much to your surprise" when you didn't check the driver situation for such a cheap (laser)-printer? Do you really think you can get more back than you give away? Sometimes you may have luck but in general of course not. The manufacturer, the vendor and all who are involved before you get it (or after you got it via expensive supplies), know how to cut away their portion (and companies who don't know die out). But "much to your surprise" even this cheap piece of crap is meanwhile supported by HPLIP version 2.7.10, see http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/laser.html There is a new LJZjsMono device class for ZJStream printers. ZJStream printers require JBIG which has patent issues, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263181 Therefore the support for ZJStream printers can be provided only via a binary-only plugin which is downloaded by "hp-setup" from the HP web-site only after the user has accepted the license terms. This patent/license stuff was the reason why the HPLIP people at HP needed so much longer to get even such crap to work with a driver and operating system where the basic idea behind is freedom (like in free speech). I don't have a ZJStream printer to test it on my own so that I don't know if it really works. If you have at least Suse Linux 10.1: I provide for testing HPLIP 2.7.10 for the released openSUSE 10.3, openSUSE 10.2, Suse Linux 10.1, Suse Linux Enterprise 10 (SLE 10), and for the openSUSE development version openSUSE "factory" for 32-bit Intel compatible (i586) and 64-bit AMD (x86_64) via the openSUSE build service at http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/jsmeix/ The packages are * only for testing * without any guarantee or warranty * without any support As an extreme example, this means that if your complete computer center crashes because of these packages, it is only your problem. Nevertheless, I am very interested in your feedback because the more people test it, the more problems (even hidden problems) are revealed. If you find a problem and you think it is not a general HPLIP issue but a Novell/Suse-specific issue, please follow the instructions in http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports and http://en.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ how to send me feedback or bug reports via the openSUSE Bugzilla. Choose the component "Printing" (also for scanning/faxing with HPLIP). Make it obvious which package, which package version, which hardware architecture and which openSUSE version you are talking about, e.g.: "Feedback regarding hplip-2.7.10-19.1.i586.rpm and hplip-hpijs-2.7.10-19.1.i586.rpm from http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/jsmeix/ for openSUSE 10.3 used on 64-bit AMD hardware." Ideally provide also the "rpm -q --changelog hplip | head" output to make it unambiguous which exact package release you have. The openSUSE Bugzilla is a bug tracking system but no support forum. This means that my packages are in any case without any support. Some special notes reagarding my packages: We (i.e. Novell/Suse) provide /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules with a changed file owner setting than in HP's original. We changed the owner from "lp" to "root" to avoid that the permissions can be changed by any CUPS filter or backend because both run usually as user "lp". For more details regarding my current packages, see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=Pine.LNX.4.64.0707040850200.22081%40nelson.suse.de Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
