[ubuntu-uk] HP Printer problems.

[Keith Powell]

Steve wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:57:16 +0100, Keith Powell  
> <keith at keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone got an HP B109a Photosmart printer/scanner which they have
>> managed to get fully working in Ubuntu? If so, please would you give me
>> some help?
>>
>> Very briefly, I bought it some weeks ago, but have had very mixed
>> fortunes with it in Linux. I have tried to get it working in several
>> distros.
>>
>> Ubuntu 9.10: I can manually set it up and get it to print, but not to
>> scan and, when I click on the HP Toolbox, it tells me that there is no
>> printer found. Trying to set it up from the HP Toolbox, is a failure.
>>
>>
> On a different model, installing hplip-gui got the scanning to work.  It  
> drags in xsane.
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html is also worth having a  
> look round.

Hello Steve.

Thanks for your reply.

I have installed hplip-gui, but scanning still doesn't work, neither 
does the toolbox.

I will try the HPLIP script again and do battle with the 7 or 8 
unresolved dependancies which it needs!

Keith