Bug#972089: Backport hplip 3.20.5 to buster-backports
On Tue 13 Oct 2020 at 10:07:10 +0200, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> Hello Didier,
>
> Thanks for your quick answer.
>
> There are multiple reasons why I use hplip:
>
> * First of all, I'm a visual-impaired guy and I help many other
> visual-impaired people using Debian, so the consequence we couldn't
> use the printer screen, we rely exclusively on HP Toolbox to get
> informations such as the status, the cartridge level, etc.
> * To configure our printer to work on WIFI, we use hp-setup
>
> Can I do the same with DriverlessPrinting?
As someone who has given a fair bit of help to other users I have
abandoned advising any use of vendor solutions (free or non-free) for
setting up a print queue with a modern printer. To my knowledge the
number of dissatisfied customers is zero :).
Alex, I would urge you to trial setting up queues for the printers you
have available. Personally, I always use lpadmin; two commands and this
fundamental job is done for a network connection. An alternative is to
rely on the auto-setup feature of cups-browsed.
https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting#shortlpadmin
There is also a big advantage in not having to deal with HP non-free
plugins. The amount of trouble they can give during an installation
is a pain.
Ink levels are generally shown in the Embedded Web Interface (EWS). I
do not comment on "status" because I am unsure what it involves.
> It seems sane-airscan is not available on Debian 10, only on Debian 11.
Alex Pevzner provides packages for Debian 10. I use one very successfully.
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pzz/Debian_10/
Cheers,
Brian.
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