On Monday, 29 January 2024 18:19:19 GMT Alan Grimes wrote: > It's a LaserJet Pro M453-4.
You shouldn't need hplip drivers and what not, IPP Everywhere ought to allow driverless CUPS to allow you to print: https://www.pwg.org/printers/ > When I was shopping for it, there was a $350 model with wireless, and a > $450 model without wireless, I was like OMG, i DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT > WIRELESS??? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!! Aw, the drama of it all! o_O > Apparently there is a stack of about twenty baroque, fiddly, obscure, > and broken demons and libraries that all must work together perfectly to > get the darn thing to work. Each of those packages are advertised as > being the epitome of convenience and plug-and-play perfection except > they don't work, at all... It's well past the point of being pointful > to mess with it. Even if I got it working today, It would be broken > tomorrow in such a way that I'd have no hope of diagnosing or fixing it. =| Read these pages to get to grips with the basics for CUPS: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Printing (No need for USE="zeroconf" if you prefer static IP addresses in your LAN) Then check this page to try out the IPP everywhere driver: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Driverless_printing Finally, if IPP Everywhere fails to connect and print, try the old hplip driver: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/HPLIP HTH.
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