[cups] Driver for HP deskjet 3055A

Brian Potkin claremont102 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 29 04:11:44 PST 2017


On Sat 28 Jan 2017 at 22:31:48 +0100, Ricardo Sánchez wrote:

> El Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:38:53 -0500
> Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> escribió:
> > On Saturday 28 January 2017 15:25:58 Ricardo Sánchez Velázquez wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks to Gene's help, I was able to access the CUPS admin page and
> > > find my printer. However, a new problem has appeared, there does not
> > > appear a driver for my printer. It's a HP deskjet 3055A. I have been
> > > looking for some solution on the net, but what I have found has not
> > > worked for me. Does anyone know where I can find the driver and how
> > > to install it? HP does not have the driver for linux.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance and greetings.
> > > Ricardo
> > >
> > Thats above my pay grade as I don't use HP printers, but in the list
> > of printer makers is a couple, maybe more whose names are hp** where
> > the asterisks are "family names".  Start down that list and there's a 
> > possibility one of them will work. I've been under the impression
> > that hp printers are in fact well supported.
> > 
> > In any event, I'm not the last word here, Michael Sweet is.

> Thank you, Gene. I've tried that with several drivers from the same
> family, but it has not worked for me.

Debian has a PPD for your printer in the printer-driver-hpcups package.
I'd suggest (strongly) you set it up with lpadmin.

https://wiki.debian.org/PrintQueuesCUPS

-- 
Brian.



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