gnome desktop.
and now for the good the bad the ugly.
debian squeeze rc2........ the good: it found and setup my hp photosmart c4700 printer semi automatically "automagically". note1: debian squeeze "how did it find my printer?" I turned on my printer and clicked on xsane to to test the scanner, xsane found my scanner and then gnome found the printer . my printer. note2: squeeze: I the used synaptic to install hplip-gui so that i can monitor my printer and it's ink usage. then i configured (gnomes menu) to show debian menu , so that i can use it to launch hptoolbox/devices." other notes: using hplip source on other distrose. gnewSense: 1moy2011... I bought the hp photosmart c4780printer a couple of weeks ago from Biglots for 70$. I've used the hp photosmart printer with gnewSense linux after installing hplip from source. link: hplip.sourceforge.net hplip source "hplip-3.11.1.run" works good with gnewsense wich is based on debian/ubuntu8.04lts. ----------------- the bad: arch linux hplip-gui fails to launch and the source fails to build. I hate rolling bugy distributions. I tested arch i got frustraded so i installed debian squeeze on my backup tower and it worked a hel of a lot better than ARCH . and it was easy to set up my printer on debian squeeze rc2. DEBIAN ftw. ----------------- printer: debain squeeze: hplip just worked no muss no fuss. Hp photosmart c4700 printer driver and scanner just work. ------------------- printer: gnewsence: with gnewSense the instal of hplip from source worked good. printer works by default without hplip source. but scanner will only work after istalling hplip from source.. for more advance printer control source also adds hplip-gui/ hp toolbox for hp printers... ------------------------ printer: ubuntu9.04" almmost every thing fails ot of the box. ubuntu9.04" cups was broken. i installed selinux so that aparmore would get removed by synaptic.. cups worked for printing but hplip source would not compile pecause of broken dependacies... ubuntu9.04 howto: dowload the cups-dev's needed to compile hplip source ### all in one download. ## $ sudo aptitude download libcupsys2-dev libcups2-dev libcupsimage2-dev then use ar to extract the broken files by hand and the use file manager to to copy the dev.h files into place. after that do not run let "hplip*.run" as root. test the ./configure file fist. if it works then try the "sh *.run" file or try make the make install. note: as of jan 2011 hplip-3.11.1.run dose work with ubuntu9.04 if you can fix cups and the cups-dev's header files by hand. ubuntu9.04 is not suported by ubuntu anymorethats why it's such a clude to set the printer and cups. -------------------------- debian squeeze rc2: pro: back to squeeze. squeeze boots faster than lenny for me. pro: squeeze feels like a rock solid debian system. i love debian it's just stable. But cons: default file extension was ext3 not ext4. con: no conky in squeeze repository at this time.
