[sf-lug] Xsane can't see an HP Laserjet 1536dnf MFP scanner / printer

[John Lau]

Based on my (limited) experience with HP, I've found the HPLIP/CUPS 
support fine, did not have to install anything outside debian main (so 
FOSS-only).

When an HP driver for a specific model requires a proprietary plugin, 
sometimes a driver for a similar model works as an alternative.

It's not perfect. Are there printer vendors that do better?


On 07/31/2018 08:45 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>
>
> On 07/31/2018 06:54 AM, Alex Kleider wrote:
>> On 2018-07-31 00:13, Rick Moen wrote:
>>> Quoting Christian Einfeldt (einfeldt at gmail.com):
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> It turns out that the problem was a proprietary driver.
>>
>> Why do we never see "Easily usable on a Linux system" on any consumer 
>> product such as a printer?  Is it simply because there aren't enough 
>> of us?
>
>     I have seen things like "Windows, MacOS, Linux" as compatible OSes 
> to run a product.
>
>     Sometimes things that are compatible are not easy to use on Linux.
>     Never a disk with Linux drivers have I seen for printers, plenty 
> for Windows and MacOS.
>     My Epson NX515 - printer/scanner/copier is such a device. 
> Originally there were no
> drivers in Linux and one had to download the separately maintained 
> Linux drivers, install
> by hand(well I used Dolphin and terminal) to get the scanner working 
> in an unreliable
> fashion.  A few years on the Linux parts are all there and even have 
> an Epson printer gui
> to read the ink levels. The only problem is with the built-in camera 
> which the scanner
> software reads as another scanner.
>
>
>
>>
>> Is there a printer company that does routinely provide open source 
>> drivers for CUPS/linux?
>>
>> (I've certainly had my frustrations with Canon and with Xerox 
>> printers- trying to get what I needed downloaded and then installed 
>> to work properly.)
>>
>     A lot of models can be frustrating to work with, for someone who 
> needs the printer
> to do real work it must be maddening.  Printer/scanner problems are 
> often subjects
> in forums and in Usenet newsgroups.
>
>     bliss
>
>
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