Install HP Photosmart 2610 All - in - one

[someone]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:08:45 -0400, Betti Ann & Preston Smith wrote:

> I asked this on the Kubuntu group and got no reply. Also i am thinking of
> moving to Ubuntu to see how I feel about using Gnome
> 
> The frustration factor is getting to me
> 
> The Kubuntu 5.10 documentation tells me that the HP Photosmart 2600 Series
> has support out of the box for both the scanner and printer segments of
> the device.
> 
> Well - it may have but this poor newby has seen nothing that intuitively
> tells me how to install the required support
> 
I've only run Breezy off live cd, and IIRC hplip and related files were
present by default- I had to install hplip, hplip-base, hplip-data, hpijs,
and xsane for scanner support, CUPS is surely installed by default (??),
(don't remember but hplip probably installed all hplip* as dependencies)
in Hoary. Next I set the printer's address directly on it's panel
(192.168.0.105); then ran "hp-makeuri 192.168.0.105" (that's not a typo,
though I believe it is a mistake- it's part of hplip-base), which gave me
"hp:/net/Photosmart_2600_series?ip=192.168.0.105" (not to stress the
obvious, but I *did* connect the printer to my network and turn it on
first); next ran "sudo kcontrol" (I'm sure Gnome has something similar),
Peripherals|Printers|Add, selected "other printer type", in the URL box
pasted "hp:/net/Photosmart_2600_series?ip=192.168.0.105". My notes
indicate it's obvious from there, and since I have little faith in my
memory of such things, I'll take it on faith ;-) ...I probably tried to
print and it worked!

BTW, I attempted the instructions on HP web site with no joy, and
the above is the result of years of experience (read blind luck). YMMV,
HTH, HAND


> Can someone point me to a guide in clear English
>
Ubuntu!

> that tells me how to go
> about installing the 2610 as a network device on a home LAN on Breezy
> 5.10?  I am not computer illiterate by any stretch of the imagination
> but the techno babble in many of the articles relating to installing
> printers is of absolutely no help me because I do not understand it.
> Even the printer install wizard is difficult to follow and makes no
> mention of installing the scanner portion.
> 
> Help please!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Preston