[ubuntu-uk] HP Printer problems.

[Steve]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:57:16 +0100, Keith Powell  
<keith at keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk> wrote:

> I have quite serious printer problems, which I hoped that 10.4 would
> cure. No such luck!
>
> Has anyone got an HP B109a Photosmart printer/scanner which they have
> managed to get fully working in Ubuntu? If so, please would you give me
> some help?
>
> Very briefly, I bought it some weeks ago, but have had very mixed
> fortunes with it in Linux. I have tried to get it working in several
> distros.
>
> Ubuntu 9.10: I can manually set it up and get it to print, but not to
> scan and, when I click on the HP Toolbox, it tells me that there is no
> printer found. Trying to set it up from the HP Toolbox, is a failure.
>
> Ubuntu 10.4rc: The same.
>
> Linux Mint8: The same.
>
> PCLinuxOS 2010 final: The same. However,
>
> PCLinuxOS 2010rc: Everything works perfectly 'out of the box'! No
> setting up needed.
>
> I have spent many hours trying everything I can find on the forums of
> these three distros, (and everything I can think of), but nothing sorts
> the problem. No scanning or Toolbox.
>
> At the moment, I am having to use Windows7, merely to be able to print.  
> :(
>
> Many thanks in anticipation!
>
> Cheers
>
> Keith
>
On a different model, installing hplip-gui got the scanning to work.  It  
drags in xsane.
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html is also worth having a  
look round.

-- 
Steve (Yorvyk)
http://www.lubuntu.net