Hi Tonlee,
I am having a HP Deskjet D1500 series printer. It works like charm with
Trisquel GNU/Linux 6.0.1 LTS version. So I understand, atleast from software
point of view, the HP Printers of D1500 series are completely compatible with
free software. But the same may not be true for some
Thanks. That means if you want to know if your printer is free hardware, then
connect it to a trisquel computer? About the software, if the printer works
on trisquel, then where does it come from? Trisquel will only use free
software but hplip is not? Another thing is, if free software is
My hp printer is not listed on h node. For gnulinux hp makes hplip software.
Hp states it is open source software. In my ubuntu package manager hplip is
present and many other packages tied to hp.
What kind of software is hplip? Is it source code? Is it a matter of licenses
that fsf will not
h-node.org lists only hardware that its users tested and reported
there. All printers supported by free drivers (without nonfree
firmware) at versions included in Trisquel should work.
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This is the page (and the 'Supported Printers' link there) [1] to goto to
find out if a HP printer is supported by the free software hplip
driver. You might need a version more current than in Trisquel 6.0 if
your printer is more recent. There are a couple of methods to get the
latest version on
Tonlee,
I had written to fsf to add HP printer to their list of hardware that support
free software, especially h-node a week ago. If possible please check whether
thy have done it.
