Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2013/12/11 Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net > <mailto:purs...@ca.inter.net>> > > > > My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up > > & the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. > > I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. > > > > The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. > > > > Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? > > > > Regarding HP printers and hplip, I recommend buying a printer which > does not require a binary plugin [1]. First they are a source of > trouble and second the binary plugins are not supported by Gentoo > which means there is no maintainer for a plugin ebuild [2]. Plugin > installation currently is not under contol of the package manager and > hplip tries to automagically download and install the plugin which > often fails. > > [1] http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/plugin.html > [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352439 > > -- > Regards > Daniel
I been using hplip for a long time. I never had any issue installing it. The only bug I ever had was when it would lock up and not work. I went back to a older version and hit the next update. It worked fine. I guess my mileage varies. lol Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
