Alle, I have an HP L7780 MFP, which is supported under hplip 1.7.2 but not the current install of 1.6.7. Does anyone know of a way just to add that particular driver to 1.6.7, or will it require removing the standard 1.6.7 and doing a custom install of 1.7.2. If the latter, what would you consider the dangers/other implications of going "rogue"? Best Regards, Camron -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc. E-mail: cwfox at us.fujitsu.com Phone: (808) 934-4102 Cell: (808) 937-5026
At Sat, 23 May 2009 09:57:33 -1000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > Alle, > > I have an HP L7780 MFP, which is supported under hplip 1.7.2 but not the > current install of 1.6.7. Does anyone know of a way just to add that > particular driver to 1.6.7, or will it require removing the standard > 1.6.7 and doing a custom install of 1.7.2. If the latter, what would you > consider the dangers/other implications of going "rogue"?It may be possible to lift a newer RPM (probably a SRC RPM) from Fedora Core and then re-building the SRC RPM (man rpmbuild). It is also possible the rpmforge has the newer version of hplip built. Note: sometimes all that is different for different models of HP MFPs is the model number and/or some configuration settings (typically DPI settings). You might be able to get away with hacking a new config file / ppd file and use an existing driver -- all HP PCL printers are much the same -- newer ones just have more bits...> > Best Regards, > Camron >-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
On Sat, 23 May 2009, Camron W. Fox wrote:> I have an HP L7780 MFP, which is supported under hplip 1.7.2 but not the > current install of 1.6.7. Does anyone know of a way just to add that > particular driver to 1.6.7, or will it require removing the standard > 1.6.7 and doing a custom install of 1.7.2. If the latter, what would you > consider the dangers/other implications of going "rogue"?I have newer hplip-2.8.10 packages in the RPMforge testing repository. You may want to try out these and report back, they work fine for me. Even the HP Device Manager works fine. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]