BigSmoke » HP http://blog.bigsmoke.us Smokes your problems, coughs fresh air. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:03:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CUPS printer driver for my HP4050 http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2011/08/17/cups-printer-driver-for-my-hp4050 http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2011/08/17/cups-printer-driver-for-my-hp4050#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:13:23 +0000 halfgaar http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=1972 My HP4050 has a million different drivers to choose from. Some don’t have the maximum DPI, some don’t have other options, like selecting paper output. The one that works the best seems to be “HP LaserJet 4050 Series Postscript (recommended) (grayscale, 2-sided printing)”. However, I have no idea anymore if that came from hplip, foomatic, gutenprint, or whatever.

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My sister didn’t have a printer yet. I was surprised that installing it on her Ubuntu machine was simply a matter of selecting the printer type from a list. I wonder: is this thanks to CUPS? Can I expect this to work in all distros that include CUPS these days?

Anyway, the printer works and the scanner too (of which I forgot to jot down the type). The scanner was supported by Xane without requiring any configuration. When it comes to hardware configuration, open source operating systems often beat those from Redmond.

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