Anne Wilson wrote:
But doesn't that mean that hplip is useless? If you can't
set up your
printer, it is. I'm not being aggressive, just practical. Happy or not,
if you have an HP device that needs hplip, you have to be able to use
hp-setup. It's not as though there is a -tui version.
You can use system-config-printer or system-config-printer-kde to set up
your printer just fine, there's no need to use the vendor-specific hp-setup
tool.
Another reason hplip-gui is not installed by default is that the RH folks
objected to a vendor-specific tool (hp-toolbox) being in the default menus.
That said, hp-toolbox is the only UI which allows you to check the cartridge
state or align or clean the cartridges at the moment.
Kevin Kofler