Mike Durham, the plugin contains proprietary files which cannot be shipped as part of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. For your printer it contains the firmware file for the printer which needs to be uploaded into it each time the printer is turned on.
Now the file is in place and so it gets automatically loaded into the printer whenever needed and after that the driver can communicate with the printer. Usually, hp-plugin is started automatically when an appropriate printer (like yours) is set up. Probably you ran into bug 363522. -- foomatic-rip fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302935 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
