[blfs-support] Printing on HP inkjets

[Ken Moffat]

I've just noticed that the IJS package is no-longer automatically
picked up by cups-filters (since 1.18.0, i.e. last December) and
would need a switch --enable-ijs to use it.

Clearly I don't need it, and until digging deeply a few minutes ago
I'd never known what exactly it was. I now known that IJS is (HP)
InkJetServer and enabling it would reinstate the cups pdftoijs
filter.

But I recall people mentioning they used HPLIP package from HP, and
it appears to me that they would now be using the HP CUPS backend.

According to debian, HPIJS is meant to be used through the foomatic
system. I assume this is no longer used, and therefore IJS can be
archived from the book - but since I don't have this hardware I'm
asking rather than asserting that we no-longer need IJS.

ĸen

[Bruce Dubbs]

Post by Ken Moffat
I've just noticed that the IJS package is no-longer automatically
picked up by cups-filters (since 1.18.0, i.e. last December) and
would need a switch --enable-ijs to use it.
Clearly I don't need it, and until digging deeply a few minutes ago
I'd never known what exactly it was. I now known that IJS is (HP)
InkJetServer and enabling it would reinstate the cups pdftoijs
filter.
But I recall people mentioning they used HPLIP package from HP, and
it appears to me that they would now be using the HP CUPS backend.
According to debian, HPIJS is meant to be used through the foomatic
system. I assume this is no longer used, and therefore IJS can be
archived from the book - but since I don't have this hardware I'm
asking rather than asserting that we no-longer need IJS.

I do have a HP OfficeJet_Pro_6978_All-in-One. From my notes:


To get printing to work, install in this order:
cups
ghostscript !
cups-filters
gutenprint
sane (for hplip)
net-snmp (for hplip, not in blfs)
hplip (not in blfs)


-- Bruce

[Ken Moffat]

Post by Bruce Dubbs
cups
ghostscript !
cups-filters
gutenprint
sane (for hplip)
net-snmp (for hplip, not in blfs)
hplip (not in blfs)

Have you tried testing printing since cups-filters-1.18 was
installed, and assuming you don't have the pdftoijs filter in
/usr/lib/cups/filters ?

If so, I guess we probably could drop IJS although I think 8.4 is
probably a better target (and gives users a bit more time to
respond).

ĸrn

[Bruce Dubbs]

Post by Ken Moffat

Post by Bruce Dubbs
cups
ghostscript !
cups-filters
gutenprint
sane (for hplip)
net-snmp (for hplip, not in blfs)
hplip (not in blfs)

Have you tried testing printing since cups-filters-1.18 was
installed, and assuming you don't have the pdftoijs filter in
/usr/lib/cups/filters ?

Not yet. I'll get to it in a couple of days. Tomorrow is for Xorg and
maybe multimedia.

Post by Ken Moffat
If so, I guess we probably could drop IJS although I think 8.4 is
probably a better target (and gives users a bit more time to
respond).

Lets go ahead and do it now. The only place IJS is listed is
cups-filters. We can just change that to an external reference.

-- Bruce