X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Delivered-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Received: from dal-a2.localdomain (unknown [74.117.189.115]) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7B3DC0097 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 15:31:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org (3.203.202.84.customer.cdi.no [84.202.203.3]) (using SSLv3 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ncopa@tanael.org) by dal-a2.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 33F07BC109C; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 15:31:36 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:31:32 +0100 From: Natanael Copa To: jeremy@thomersonfamily.com Cc: Alpine-devel Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] HPLIP on Alpine Message-ID: <20131223163132.16fd9e62@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-alpine-linux-uclibc) X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 15:39:01 -0500 Jeremy Thomerson wrote: > Anyone ever tried setting up an HP printer on Alpine? I have an OfficeJet > Pro L7680 that I wanted to try to set up so that you could AirPrint to it. > It seems that if you can get a CUPS server configured to print to your > printer you can then use Avahi to provide AirPrint functionality (see [1]). > > I have Avahi already running for other dnssd/mdns stuff, so that part > shouldn't be hard. And installing CUPS and configuring it was a breeze on > Alpine. But I couldn't seem to get my printer working with CUPS. I think > that HPLIP must be required. > > Has anyone had any experience with setting up a print server on Alpine with > HP printers? Did you need HPLIP? How hard is it to package something like > that? (I'm not good at Linux packaging, but I could give it a shot). > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/avahi#Airprint_from_Mobile_Devices > > Jeremy Thomerson I have used (old) hp printers with the generic postscript driver. I doubt all printers can do that. I think we want a package for hplip. -nc --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---