OT: HP drivers

[Peter Flynn]

On 10/09/2022 22:34, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> Is it recommended to use HPLIP on Xubuntu 22.04 in place of the 
> provided driver support?
> 
> My Officejet scanner is working moderately well but it has some
> really wonky problems.
> 
> I haven't installed any of the HPLIP drivers yet, though I used to
> use them with reasonable success before I upgraded my machine
> hardware and needed to use X31.10 until I could upgrade to 22.04.
> 
> Is this recommended or is there a better alternative?

I tend to install the whole HPLIP thing direct from 
https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/gethplip
nowadays, rather than worry about individual drivers, and let it do what 
it wants to do. It seems to work fine now, after a few years ago having 
some very dodgy OfficeJet drivers, during which period I just copied the 
working driver from a Mac.

Bear in mind that a printer "driver" is just a Postscript file (PPD) 
which should work on any platform with printer service software (eg 
CUPS, HPLIP, etc) installed.

Peter