Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 11:59 AM > From: "gene heskett" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian > > On 11/16/24 09:46, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 15:44 Timothy M Butterworth

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 9:52 AM Tom Browder wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 8:45 AM Tom Browder wrote: > ... > > Now I can do it all. > > BTW, the program 'simple-scanner' shows in my MATE desktop > "Applications/Graphics" menu as 'Document Scanner'. > That is how it shows up in KDE as well.

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On 11/16/24 09:46, Tom Browder wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 15:44 Timothy M Butterworth > wrote: ... I use a program called simple-scan, it works great! I highly recommend giving it a try. It is packaged and available through Debian Main re

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 8:45 AM Tom Browder wrote: ... > Now I can do it all. BTW, the program 'simple-scanner' shows in my MATE desktop "Applications/Graphics" menu as 'Document Scanner'. -Tom

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 15:44 Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > I use a program called simple-scan, it works great! I highly > recommend giving it a try. It is packaged and available through Debian Main > repo. > I've tried that before, and I didn't think it wo

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On 11/15/24 10:50, Tom Browder wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 08:36 Tom Browder > wrote: … So far I cannot get scanning or copying to use the ADF in two-sided mode. Sorry, I lied about two-sided copying: I can do that, but menu is not easy to use. -Tom

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 1:02 PM Tom Browder wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 7:46 AM Tom Browder wrote: > ... > > I wound up, after some fumbling, to set up everything using some basic > info from HP documentation that came with the printer. I used Firefox to go > to the network address of my pr

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 08:36 Tom Browder wrote: … So far I cannot get scanning or copying to use the ADF in two-sided mode. > Sorry, I lied about two-sided copying: I can do that, but menu is not easy to use. -Tom

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 7:46 AM Tom Browder wrote: ... I wound up, after some fumbling, to set up everything using some basic info from HP documentation that came with the printer. I used Firefox to go to the network address of my printer and it magically showed me the proper setup screen where I

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 4:22 PM Charles Curley wrote: ... > General advice: Always check to see if a package is available. There > are a variety of ways to do that, not least searching debian packages. > https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Yes, I should have, but I was trying to read other st

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:10:29 -0600 Tom Browder wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 17:48 Charles Curley > wrote: > > > > On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:19:59 -0600 > > Oh my, I didn't realize those were packages. General advice: Always check to see if a package is available. There are a variety of ways

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 17:48 Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:19:59 -0600 > Tom Browder wrote: > > > I'm going to try installing the OpenPrinting snap HPLIP on top of my > > current mess and see what happens. > > I suggest you use the debian packages hplip and hplip-gui instead o

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:19:59 -0600 Tom Browder wrote: > I'm going to try installing the OpenPrinting snap HPLIP on top of my > current mess and see what happens. I suggest you use the debian packages hplip and hplip-gui instead of a snap. Unless I have a really good reason to run a snap package,

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 6:07 PM Tom Browder wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 09:49 Charles Curley > wrote: >> >> On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 07:40:54 -0600 >> Tom Browder wrote: >> >> > I just bought a new printer, an HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP 4301fdw, to >> > replace my nine-year old HP MFP black an

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 09:49 Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 07:40:54 -0600 > Tom Browder wrote: > > > I just bought a new printer, an HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP 4301fdw, to > > replace my nine-year old HP MFP black and white laser printer (which > >

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 07:40:54 -0600 Tom Browder wrote: > I just bought a new printer, an HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP 4301fdw, to > replace my nine-year old HP MFP black and white laser printer (which > was always connected directly by wire to my home network). > > Now I am trying their latest cod

Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

I just bought a new printer, an HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP 4301fdw, to replace my nine-year old HP MFP black and white laser printer (which was always connected directly by wire to my home network). My old printer served me well, especially after I discovered the HP developers site and its code for