[cups] Installing HP Envy 4520

[Len Mackay]

Hi Brian,
Thanks a million I have run the apt get and installed ok. Gone through CUPS printer install and all now working perfectly.
Have a nice Christmas. It’s Snowing here in Scotland but won’t last.
Kind regards

Len
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From: cups <cups-bounces at cups.org> on behalf of Brian Potkin <claremont102 at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 6:05:36 PM
To: cups at cups.org
Subject: Re: [cups] Installing HP Envy 4520

On Mon 18 Dec 2017 at 16:48:08 +0000, Len Mackay wrote:

> I am relatively new to working with a raspberry pi and programming is
> not my strong point. I am using the latest desktop software which is
> great however I am having great difficulty in gettin the above printer
> to work, wirelessly or hard wired. Doing it through the cups option of
> adding printers ther does not appear to be a driver in the list. The
> printer appears but I am unable to get a driver.

> I have also tried to install via the HP site but again no luck.

> Any advice (in as simple a form as possible) would be much appreciated.

I have no experience of using a rasberry pi but I believe the
operating system is based on Debian. For the driver (a PPD)
you will, at a minimum, need the printer-driver-hpcups package.
Check you have it (from a terminal) with

  dpkg -l printer-driver-hpcups

or whatever you feel comfortable with.

Get it with

  apt-get printer-driver-hpcups

if you do not have it. (Actually, if you already have it, this
command will tell you so).

We'll go from there once you determine the package installation
state.

--
Brian.
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