On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 6:07 PM Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 09:49 Charles Curley
> <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 07:40:54 -0600
>> Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I just bought a new printer, an HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP 4301fdw, to
>> > replace my nine-year old HP MFP black and white laser printer (which
>> > was always connected directly by wire to my home network).
>>
>> > Now I am trying their latest code and having problems getting it to
>> > work smoothly. The latest code doesn't work correctly (two other
>> > users had posted a work-around for Ubuntu but it failed for me), so I
>> > had to use the C/Bash/Python code archive to compile and install the
>> > CUPS and other ways to advertise the printer on the network.
>>
>> I bought an HP LaserJet MFP M234sdw several years ago. It is a
>> so-called "driverless" printer. Your experience sounds a lot like mine.
>> If your printer is also "driverless" I suggest you get rid of all
>> printer drivers unless you need them for some other printer you haven't
>> mentioned.
>>
>> You will probably want HP's HP Smart app on your phone to administer
>> it, even though it is an officious proprietary blob.
>>
>> And identifying which "printer" will actually work is a PITA, as you
>
> I'm going to try installing the OpenPrinting snap HPLIP on top of my current
> mess and see what happens.
I install hplip, but I don't recall if that is on both Debian+Red Hat,
or Debian only. I also configure the server to only provide LPD and
IPP{S}.
My Color LaserJet Pro M252dw is configured like so: <https://ibb.co/C6PWqBN>.
I don't use 9100 Printing, AirPrint, Bonjour, mDNS, WS-Print and
friends. In fact, I remove distro packages that provide Bonjour and
mDNS because DNS is the source of truth on my network.
Jeff
