HP Photosmart 8700 + linux + cups +gutenprint

These printers:

Photosmart 8750
Photosmart 8750xi
Photosmart 8750gp
Photosmart 8753

Are all supported as of HPLIP 0.9.5. So your printer will work with HPLIP however full support depends on your linux distro. Please see:

http://hplip.sourceforge.net

Hope this helps.

A

On Tuesday 27 November 2007 11:41:46 am Aaron Albright wrote:
> Your question #18803 on HPLIP changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/18803
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Aaron Albright proposed the following answer:
> These printers:
>
> Photosmart 8750
> Photosmart 8750xi
> Photosmart 8750gp
> Photosmart 8753
>
> Are all supported as of HPLIP 0.9.5. So your printer will work with
> HPLIP however full support depends on your linux distro. Please see:
>
> http://hplip.sourceforge.net
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> A

ok, that sounds promising and was hoping for such an answer. One more question
though. I assume by depending on distro, you mean the version of HPLIP that
particular distro currently has? If that is the case then I see no problem as
I use a source based distro called Lunar-Linux and it does have your current
hplip version.

--
You can tuna piano but you can't tune a fish.

http://www.lunar-linux.org/
It's worth the spin.

Because the distro's repackage hplip they may make changes that we are unaware of in hplip. So we can't guarantee that hplip will work if it comes prepackaged, although 'usually' it's a pretty safe bet. The problem arises when one may need to install our software from source--we test many different distros however it's near impossible to test them all. So for the example of Lunar-Linux, although hplip -should- work we haven't tested it so can't promise that it will. However say with Ubuntu we have tested it and we know it does work. If that makes sense?

If Lunar-Linux includes hplip you should be okay. In theory..

On Tuesday 27 November 2007 12:01:19 pm Aaron Albright wrote:
> Your question #18803 on HPLIP changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/18803
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Aaron Albright proposed the following answer:
> Because the distro's repackage hplip they may make changes that we are
> unaware of in hplip. So we can't guarantee that hplip will work if it
> comes prepackaged, although 'usually' it's a pretty safe bet. The
> problem arises when one may need to install our software from source--we
> test many different distros however it's near impossible to test them
> all. So for the example of Lunar-Linux, although hplip -should- work we
> haven't tested it so can't promise that it will. However say with
> Ubuntu we have tested it and we know it does work. If that makes sense?
>
> If Lunar-Linux includes hplip you should be okay. In theory..

Are you aware of source build failures from people using gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7
and kernels 2.6.23.x ? Erm wait a minute, I'll test that right now.

Ok, using hplip-2.7.10 from http://hplip.sourceforge.net compiled and
installed fine without issues on x86 and x86_64 (64bit libs only).
Unfortunately I don't have the printer to actually test it but that's a good
sign.

Looks like the 8700 will be the one.

Thanks.
--
You can tuna piano but you can't tune a fish.

http://www.lunar-linux.org/
It's worth the spin.

Thanks Aaron Albright, that solved my question.