Hi
I WAS going to post a GLOWING report about how....this is the absolutely best way to say this...
Tahr "just found" the HP6600 and the DRIVERS...and it just ran...using the ...usb.....AND.... when the wireless function was enabled on the printer, the printer found my wireless network, accepted the password and then Tahr just found THAT!
It added in a driver for the fax function, but I do not have a phone line to hook into the machine.
However, there is another "problem" for the device in that it is color etc. etc. and the cartridges are expensive(even refilled) so I will only use it for greeting cards etc.
BUT..............and this is a BIG PROBLEM.............
My workhorse printer is the lowly HP Laserjet6P which is an lpt printer using a parallel port. It is only black and white, and works great for stuff that I have to print to phontocpy for school.
TWO things happened immediately.
I customarily restart the computer after installation of a printer for the OS to gather up it's skirts.
a) upon restart, the MS ergonomic, wireless, keyboard worked on the splash screen and allowed me to enter my password.
But then....when trying to enter the wallet password or type in Libre Office .........the wireless keyboard did not work, and it was not the battery.
After considerable consternation and replacement of batteries, I thought to add back in the usb cable into the HP 6600, which stops wireless printing(don't want it anyway), and the keyboard then worked! :0
AAANNNNDDDE...
b) The HPLaserjet 6P disappeared, I have re-installed it several times, but it just will not "stick" the only function, using the HPlip GUI does not recognize the appearance of the HPLaserjet 6P like it normally does, one has to go, manually, through a setup and then it does not stick in the normal setup function through Settings/printers, and does not even APPEAR in HPLIP gui.
Soooooo looking around on the net, it may be that CUPS messed up in some way, apparently, when one "thing" is loaded and another is loaded, the first thing disappears, and the CUPS folder has to have some lines completely removed by root.
Don't know......
c) I have NOT removed the HP 6600 driver and then attempted to re-install the LaserJet 6P.
d) The thing about the wireless keyboard not working may indicate that some kind of "ports" may have become mixed up, don't know.
The cut to the chase is that it seems as if this will be a GREAT PRINTER for Kubuntu/Ubuntu, but since I don't need it that much, I may need to return it, because the HP6p Laserjet is MUCH more important.
Any suggestions? I would really like to get both to work because if it does..........
I but the thing for $129 USD. a great bu, for a scanner, printer, fax etc.
woodsmoke
I WAS going to post a GLOWING report about how....this is the absolutely best way to say this...
Tahr "just found" the HP6600 and the DRIVERS...and it just ran...using the ...usb.....AND.... when the wireless function was enabled on the printer, the printer found my wireless network, accepted the password and then Tahr just found THAT!
It added in a driver for the fax function, but I do not have a phone line to hook into the machine.
However, there is another "problem" for the device in that it is color etc. etc. and the cartridges are expensive(even refilled) so I will only use it for greeting cards etc.
BUT..............and this is a BIG PROBLEM.............
My workhorse printer is the lowly HP Laserjet6P which is an lpt printer using a parallel port. It is only black and white, and works great for stuff that I have to print to phontocpy for school.
TWO things happened immediately.
I customarily restart the computer after installation of a printer for the OS to gather up it's skirts.
a) upon restart, the MS ergonomic, wireless, keyboard worked on the splash screen and allowed me to enter my password.
But then....when trying to enter the wallet password or type in Libre Office .........the wireless keyboard did not work, and it was not the battery.
After considerable consternation and replacement of batteries, I thought to add back in the usb cable into the HP 6600, which stops wireless printing(don't want it anyway), and the keyboard then worked! :0
AAANNNNDDDE...
b) The HPLaserjet 6P disappeared, I have re-installed it several times, but it just will not "stick" the only function, using the HPlip GUI does not recognize the appearance of the HPLaserjet 6P like it normally does, one has to go, manually, through a setup and then it does not stick in the normal setup function through Settings/printers, and does not even APPEAR in HPLIP gui.
Soooooo looking around on the net, it may be that CUPS messed up in some way, apparently, when one "thing" is loaded and another is loaded, the first thing disappears, and the CUPS folder has to have some lines completely removed by root.
Don't know......
c) I have NOT removed the HP 6600 driver and then attempted to re-install the LaserJet 6P.
d) The thing about the wireless keyboard not working may indicate that some kind of "ports" may have become mixed up, don't know.
The cut to the chase is that it seems as if this will be a GREAT PRINTER for Kubuntu/Ubuntu, but since I don't need it that much, I may need to return it, because the HP6p Laserjet is MUCH more important.
Any suggestions? I would really like to get both to work because if it does..........
I but the thing for $129 USD. a great bu, for a scanner, printer, fax etc.
woodsmoke
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