Yesterday, I tried to configure my new HP Printer/Scanner under Fedora 18.
My first attempt was from Fedora Settings, but the printer didn't work ever.
So I decided to make some search for drivers on the internet and I found this:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install_wizard/index.html
With this link the installation became very easy.
You have to select the distribution which you use, the version you use, the type of HP device, and the proper model.
After this you will download an script file with name: hplip-X.X.X.run ( X.X.X is the version of the script file, mine was hplip-3.13.2.run)
Now you have to give execute permissions to this file:
chmod +x hplip-X.X.X.run
and now just run it:
./hplip-X.X.X.run
and follow the orders which described in the script. It may take some time because the script download and install all the required files from repositories. In the end of the script, a GUI window will open and you have to unplug and re-plug your device to be discovered from the wizard.
When you finish with the script and the wizard, your device will be available for use.
P.S.: For scanner owners, the script installs sane and xsane for your scanner. If you are familiar with terminal, you can use sane for scanning images. This link may help you. If you prefer the GUI to scan your images, xsane may not work in your system, because there is a bug in nvidia closed drivers (maybe and in ati closed drivers). So i suggest you to use simple-scan under Fedora distros. You can find it in default repos with:
sudo yum install simple-scan
now run it:
simple-scan
and now scan an image!
My first attempt was from Fedora Settings, but the printer didn't work ever.
So I decided to make some search for drivers on the internet and I found this:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install_wizard/index.html
With this link the installation became very easy.
You have to select the distribution which you use, the version you use, the type of HP device, and the proper model.
After this you will download an script file with name: hplip-X.X.X.run ( X.X.X is the version of the script file, mine was hplip-3.13.2.run)
Now you have to give execute permissions to this file:
chmod +x hplip-X.X.X.run
and now just run it:
./hplip-X.X.X.run
and follow the orders which described in the script. It may take some time because the script download and install all the required files from repositories. In the end of the script, a GUI window will open and you have to unplug and re-plug your device to be discovered from the wizard.
When you finish with the script and the wizard, your device will be available for use.
P.S.: For scanner owners, the script installs sane and xsane for your scanner. If you are familiar with terminal, you can use sane for scanning images. This link may help you. If you prefer the GUI to scan your images, xsane may not work in your system, because there is a bug in nvidia closed drivers (maybe and in ati closed drivers). So i suggest you to use simple-scan under Fedora distros. You can find it in default repos with:
sudo yum install simple-scan
now run it:
simple-scan
and now scan an image!
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