[ubuntu-uk] HP Printer problems.

[Steve]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:11:14 +0100, Keith Powell  
<keith at keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
>
HP seem to think it works  
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/photosmart/photosmart_b109a_series.html

-- 
Steve (Yorvyk)
http://www.lubuntu.net