64 bit Ubuntu & printers

[Gerard Cunningham]

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 11:14 +0000, Shane Fagan wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> Is this just for 64bit or 32bit? Ill have a look into it but I presume
> its just HP didnt make the driver for your printer model.
> 

The printer worked fine with HPLIP on the old box (32 bit) but no joy on
the new 64 bit box. Problem seems to be 64 bit related. FWIW its a dual
boot, works intermittently on Win7, not at all with Karmic.


> Regards
> Shane Fagan
> 
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Laurent Coudeur <laurentc at iol.ie>
> wrote:
>         Le 31/01/2010 21:42:49, Gerard Cunningham a écrit :
>         >
>         > I'm having a problem getting Ubuntu (9.10) to communicate
>         with a
>         > printer, a HP Photosmart 7960. The problem appears to be
>         that Ubuntu
>         > is
>         > 64 bit, but despite trying several possible solutions found
>         through
>         > google/usenet/etc, I've had no luck. Has anyone else had
>         this problem,
>         > and managed to resolve it?
>         >
>         
>         I have a 7360 and never had a problem (driver is HPLIP)
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