maverick: HP Officejet 4215 no longer prints text

[Pastor JW]

On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:57:31 pm D. R. Evans wrote:
> D. R. Evans said the following at 02/05/2011 10:55 AM :
> > I just bit the bullet and moved my wife's computer up from hardy all the
> > way up to maverick (since this is the first version of KDE4 that I've
> > found passably usable).

I'm running 4.4.5 which handles for the most part as well as 3.x.  I DID stay 
with Hardy and I also waited to go to Lucid til I started hearing decent 
things about it.  

> > But her HP Officejet 4215 no longer works properly: graphics print fine,
> > but when printing text the print head moves, but no text is actually
> > printed. Does anyone know how I can get her printer working again?
> 
> I filed a report at https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/144235
> and was told to update hplip... but having asked twice how to do so, I have
> not received any responses. Can anyone here tell me how to get the more
> recent hplip package on to my wife's maverick system?

Lack of response usually means people do not know.  For instance, I'm not sure 
about a Maverick system since I only use the LTS version but the hplip has 
worked since ever for my systems without the least of any problems.  I use a 
HP J4680 which seems to work flawlessly and we have a Canon MP560, which we use 
mostly for fax, camera SD cards, and copying because it is pathetic with our 
Kubuntu network.  Turboprint which we bought, provided no user support nor did 
it ever properly work.  We do not plan on ever buying a Canon again since it 
does not work with Linux nor do we plan to ever either recommend or buy 
Turboprint again.
 
> I'd really hate to have to go back to Windows on that machine, but I'm sure
> you can appreciate that not being able to print is not a viable position to
> be in.

To me, then the more responsible route to take would be to stay with the LTS 
versions like I tell the owners of the 35 machines I service to do, and leave 
the testing of more unstable versions to those who have the time to 
troubleshoot.  The threat to retreat to something as full of bugs as windoze 
really can not be taken seriously.  I've been there and know better as have 
most of the people on this list.

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