On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:41:45 -0600 Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> I have an HP Officejet Pro L7700, which is starting to show its age. > Also HP has discontinued the standard size cartridges. I can get the > large ones. I suspect I could buy a printer for what four large > cartridges would cost me. Well, that last sentence turned out to be close. While in the Big City I went by the local Staples, and bought an HP LaserJet MFP M232-M237 - IPP Everywhere printer/scanner for under $250. It took a bit of finagling to get me started, but that turned out to be a problem with my isc-dhcpd DHCP server. Also, setting the thing up requires HP's HP Smart app. I happen to have an iPhone, so I could use it. A pure Linux shop would be SOL. It also took about 38 minutes on the phone with HP's support line. Sigh. Once I had the printer talking to the phone, things moved quickly. The only thing this printer doesn't have is color printing. Apparently color printers are rare right now. But I have a local print shop to whom I can email PDFs, and that works nicely. And the price delta will more than pay for the print shop. I did have one software issue. Debian 10 (Buster) has HPLIP 3.18.12+dfsg0-2, which does not appear to support the beast. However, Debian 11 (Bullseye) xsane (3.21.2+dfsg1-2) found it across the network with no quibbles, and I was able to scan immediately with no setup. Very nice. Thank you for all the advice. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
