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Today's Topics:
1. Wireless printer with Linux compatibility (Jim Tippett)
2. Re: Wireless printer with Linux compatibility (Paul Gear)
3. Re: Wireless printer with Linux compatibility (Rob Dawson)
4. Re: Wireless printer with Linux compatibility (Boden Matthews)
5. Re: Wireless printer with Linux compatibility (Rob Dawson)
6. Re: Wireless printer with Linux compatibility (Boden Matthews)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:41:52 +1100
From: Jim Tippett <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Wireless printer with Linux compatibility
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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I intend to purchase a wireless printer for our home network. We use
Ubuntu 12.04, Peppermint 3 and Windows 7. Was thinking about the HP
Officejet Pro 8600 and wonder if anyone has some experience they can share.
Thanks,
Jim Tippett
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:01:28 +1000
From: Paul Gear <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Wireless printer with Linux compatibility
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On 10/16/2012 05:41 AM, Jim Tippett wrote:
I intend to purchase a wireless printer for our home network. We use
Ubuntu 12.04, Peppermint 3 and Windows 7. Was thinking about the HP
Officejet Pro 8600 and wonder if anyone has some experience they can
share.
Thanks,
Jim Tippett
I haven't used any wireless printers, but i recommend checking out the
OpenPrinting database:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/databaseintro
In general, HP seem to be pretty good with providing info to Linux
developers, but there are some exceptions.
Paul
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:11:02 +1000
From: Rob Dawson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Wireless printer with Linux compatibility
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I did reply Jim but I included a couple of screenshots and it appears my
reply is being held for the mods to approve. Not sure if you can
include images in this forum? If it bounces I'll resend you the reply
with a link. Short answer - HP is the only way to go for Linux printing
and wireless is no problem, I've been using their printers for 5 years
on Linux.
Cheers,
Rob
On 16/10/12 09:01, Paul Gear wrote:
On 10/16/2012 05:41 AM, Jim Tippett wrote:
I intend to purchase a wireless printer for our home network. We use
Ubuntu 12.04, Peppermint 3 and Windows 7. Was thinking about the HP
Officejet Pro 8600 and wonder if anyone has some experience they can
share.
Thanks,
Jim Tippett
I haven't used any wireless printers, but i recommend checking out the
OpenPrinting database:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/databaseintro
In general, HP seem to be pretty good with providing info to Linux
developers, but there are some exceptions.
Paul
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:37:49 +1000
From: Boden Matthews <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Wireless printer with Linux compatibility
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At home, I have a HP Photosmart Premium C310 that has WiFi, I had no issues
connecting to it and printing from it. It's got internet connectivity as
well, so worst case scenario and you can't connect to it, you can just
email whatever you needed to print to it and it will print it (after a
1-2min delay). I've emailed it Word documents and PDFs that printed fine,
but it doesn't like OpenOffice docs unless they're saved in PDF or Word
format, which is kind of annoying.
Regards,
Boden Matthews,
http://bodenm.wordpress.com
On 16 October 2012 09:11, Rob Dawson <[email protected]> wrote:
I did reply Jim but I included a couple of screenshots and it appears my
reply is being held for the mods to approve. Not sure if you can include
images in this forum? If it bounces I'll resend you the reply with a link.
Short answer - HP is the only way to go for Linux printing and wireless is
no problem, I've been using their printers for 5 years on Linux.
Cheers,
Rob
On 16/10/12 09:01, Paul Gear wrote:
On 10/16/2012 05:41 AM, Jim Tippett wrote:
I intend to purchase a wireless printer for our home network. We use
Ubuntu 12.04, Peppermint 3 and Windows 7. Was thinking about the HP
Officejet Pro 8600 and wonder if anyone has some experience they can share.
Thanks,
Jim Tippett
I haven't used any wireless printers, but i recommend checking out the
OpenPrinting database:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/databaseintro
In general, HP seem to be pretty good with providing info to Linux
developers, but there are some exceptions.
Paul
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:49:33 +1000
From: Rob Dawson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Wireless printer with Linux compatibility
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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That sounds weird that it won't print OO docs Boden, my HP's have always
printed any type of document. Do you have hp-lip installed?
Rather than wait for the mods, here is what I posted earlier:
I only use HP printers because I find they have the best support for
Linux and a system tray app that works well. I have been using Ubuntu
for about 7 years and HP printers (wireless and cabled) for about 5 of
those without any hassles (I threw out the Epson and Canon printers
because they just didn't play as well).
The main thing I need to do with each new printer is make sure the
connection is setup correctly otherwise it can have problems scanning,
throwing a lot of "Device not found" IO errors. To get them both
working (printer and scanner) I create separate printer connections for
both. Here is a link to the screenshots showing the different connections:
Printer Setup
<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1590391/Printer/Screenshot%20from%202012-10-16%2007%3A29%3A29.png>
Scanner Setup
<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1590391/Printer/Screenshot%20from%202012-10-16%2007%3A30%3A00.png>
Both connections use the same driver but I find doing it this way gets
both working flawlessly every time. There are other ways to do it I'm
sure but this works for me. Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Rob
On 16/10/12 09:37, Boden Matthews wrote:
At home, I have a HP Photosmart Premium C310 that has WiFi, I had no
issues connecting to it and printing from it. It's got internet
connectivity as well, so worst case scenario and you can't connect to
it, you can just email whatever you needed to print to it and it will
print it (after a 1-2min delay). I've emailed it Word documents and
PDFs that printed fine, but it doesn't like OpenOffice docs unless
they're saved in PDF or Word format, which is kind of annoying.
Regards,
Boden Matthews,
http://bodenm.wordpress.com <http://bodenm.wordpress.com/>
On 16 October 2012 09:11, Rob Dawson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I did reply Jim but I included a couple of screenshots and it
appears my reply is being held for the mods to approve. Not sure
if you can include images in this forum? If it bounces I'll
resend you the reply with a link. Short answer - HP is the only
way to go for Linux printing and wireless is no problem, I've been
using their printers for 5 years on Linux.
Cheers,
Rob
On 16/10/12 09:01, Paul Gear wrote:
On 10/16/2012 05:41 AM, Jim Tippett wrote:
I intend to purchase a wireless printer for our home network.
We use Ubuntu 12.04, Peppermint 3 and Windows 7. Was thinking
about the HP Officejet Pro 8600 and wonder if anyone has some
experience they can share.
Thanks,
Jim Tippett
I haven't used any wireless printers, but i recommend checking
out the OpenPrinting database:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/databaseintro
In general, HP seem to be pretty good with providing info to
Linux developers, but there are some exceptions.
Paul
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:53:33 +1000
From: Boden Matthews <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Wireless printer with Linux compatibility
Message-ID:
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It prints OO docs fine, but it won't accept them as printable if you email
the document to the printer instead of printing directly from the PC.
Regards,
Boden Matthews,
http://bodenm.wordpress.com
On 16 October 2012 09:49, Rob Dawson <[email protected]> wrote:
That sounds weird that it won't print OO docs Boden, my HP's have always
printed any type of document. Do you have hp-lip installed?
Rather than wait for the mods, here is what I posted earlier:
I only use HP printers because I find they have the best support for Linux
and a system tray app that works well. I have been using Ubuntu for about
7 years and HP printers (wireless and cabled) for about 5 of those without
any hassles (I threw out the Epson and Canon printers because they just
didn't play as well).
The main thing I need to do with each new printer is make sure the
connection is setup correctly otherwise it can have problems scanning,
throwing a lot of "Device not found" IO errors. To get them both working
(printer and scanner) I create separate printer connections for both. Here
is a link to the screenshots showing the different connections:
Printer
Setup<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1590391/Printer/Screenshot%20from%202012-10-16%2007%3A29%3A29.png>
Scanner
Setup<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1590391/Printer/Screenshot%20from%202012-10-16%2007%3A30%3A00.png>
Both connections use the same driver but I find doing it this way gets
both working flawlessly every time. There are other ways to do it I'm sure
but this works for me. Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Rob
On 16/10/12 09:37, Boden Matthews wrote:
At home, I have a HP Photosmart Premium C310 that has WiFi, I had no
issues connecting to it and printing from it. It's got internet
connectivity as well, so worst case scenario and you can't connect to it,
you can just email whatever you needed to print to it and it will print it
(after a 1-2min delay). I've emailed it Word documents and PDFs that
printed fine, but it doesn't like OpenOffice docs unless they're saved in
PDF or Word format, which is kind of annoying.
Regards,
Boden Matthews,
http://bodenm.wordpress.com
On 16 October 2012 09:11, Rob Dawson <[email protected]> wrote:
I did reply Jim but I included a couple of screenshots and it appears my
reply is being held for the mods to approve. Not sure if you can include
images in this forum? If it bounces I'll resend you the reply with a link.
Short answer - HP is the only way to go for Linux printing and wireless is
no problem, I've been using their printers for 5 years on Linux.
Cheers,
Rob
On 16/10/12 09:01, Paul Gear wrote:
On 10/16/2012 05:41 AM, Jim Tippett wrote:
I intend to purchase a wireless printer for our home network. We use
Ubuntu 12.04, Peppermint 3 and Windows 7. Was thinking about the HP
Officejet Pro 8600 and wonder if anyone has some experience they can share.
Thanks,
Jim Tippett
I haven't used any wireless printers, but i recommend checking out the
OpenPrinting database:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/databaseintro
In general, HP seem to be pretty good with providing info to Linux
developers, but there are some exceptions.
Paul
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