I also use text mode login & Printers menu.
I just used sudo apt-get upgrade hplip
(and changed printer IP address to match current LAN)
and my hp Photosmart 7520 is working again.
Xsane & Skanlite find my old Canon flatbed scanner, but not my hp 7520 scanner.
Dick McCullough
To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
From: lubu...@prpcompany.com
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:58:56 -0500
Subject: Re: [lubuntu-users] lubuntu and printers
On 2/29/2016 12:54 PM, Ian Bruntlett
wrote:
Hi Richard,
On 29 February 2016 at 17:03,
Richard H. McCullough <r...@pioneerca.com>
wrote:
I originally built HPLIP from source.
When I executed the System Tools/Software Updater
menu in Lubuntu 14,
one of the updates was HPLIP, and the update
crashed.
It looked to me like it was recompiling the source.
I tend to quit all programmes before running Software
Updater. The GUI and desktop take up a fair amount of
memory. One way to maximise your computer's resources
would be to login as text mode only - i.e. don't boot
into a GUI. It's been years since I've done that and
people are using systemd these days. When you've logged
in, run sudo apt-get hplip . You might have to get the
hpli-gui package as well.
HTH,
Ian
I recently installed an old HP Laserjet 2100 on a low-spec machine
with 512MB. I installed HPLIP and HPLIP-DOC from Synaptic, but not
HPLIP-GUI, which is for the QT-based GUI HP Toolbox that sits in the
systray, which I concluded I did not need. Then I just used the
Printers tool from the menu.
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