Dear printing experts - Thank you for all your efforts and hard work related to printing in Debian.
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I hope you can give me some guidance with my situation. I have a wheezy 7.2 system (no extra repositories, no extra packages - aside from skype) on Dell Precision 4700. I also have an OfficeJet 6500 e709n connected to network via wifi.
The wheezy hplip version 3.12.6-3.1 is supposed to have full support for my printer - including scanning support. However, xsane returns an "Invalid argument" error and despite all my efforts I haven't been able to scan with it.
I researched this for a couple days and couldn't make the multifunction printer function fully. As a last resort, I had to try installing the hplip from hplipopensource site. The latest version there 3.13.11. This install gave me a warning (related to cupsys-bsd - doesn't exist in repos) and an error (some python error running the hp-systray) at the end but it works perfectly (as far as I can tell).
I'd like to avoid using anything from outside the Debian standard repositories. Do you have any suggestions on getting the printer working with the version in the repos? Should I confidently move forward with the latest version of hplip?