On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:57:16 +0100, Keith Powell <ke...@keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk> wrote:
> I have quite serious printer problems, which I hoped that 10.4 would > cure. No such luck! > > Has anyone got an HP B109a Photosmart printer/scanner which they have > managed to get fully working in Ubuntu? If so, please would you give me > some help? > > Very briefly, I bought it some weeks ago, but have had very mixed > fortunes with it in Linux. I have tried to get it working in several > distros. > > Ubuntu 9.10: I can manually set it up and get it to print, but not to > scan and, when I click on the HP Toolbox, it tells me that there is no > printer found. Trying to set it up from the HP Toolbox, is a failure. > > Ubuntu 10.4rc: The same. > > Linux Mint8: The same. > > PCLinuxOS 2010 final: The same. However, > > PCLinuxOS 2010rc: Everything works perfectly 'out of the box'! No > setting up needed. > > I have spent many hours trying everything I can find on the forums of > these three distros, (and everything I can think of), but nothing sorts > the problem. No scanning or Toolbox. > > At the moment, I am having to use Windows7, merely to be able to print. > :( > > Many thanks in anticipation! > > Cheers > > Keith > On a different model, installing hplip-gui got the scanning to work. It drags in xsane. http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html is also worth having a look round. -- Steve (Yorvyk) http://www.lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
