[elrepo] Request for hplip driver on elrepo

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Sanjay Arora<sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> First of all let me please congratulate the promoters of this project.
> It was something very much needed.

Thanks for the kind words.

> Standard hplip on el5 is not compiled with network options, so does
> not recognize a printer with a network port. I have a HP 2840 MFD that
> won't scan on linux because linux does not find any scanning device.
> Printing happens because I have put direct ip address in the print
> driver and that does not seem to be used for the scanning device.
>
> I have been putting off custom compiling hplip because one xp machine
> gets used over linux machines whenever some scanning comes up and
> something else urgent is there.

Right now, there is no immediate plan to provide a newer version of
hplip.  However, this might happen if and when we have the time to
build and test it.  In the meantime, if you wish to try to build
version 3.9.8 yourself, there is a web page for that maintained by a
CentOS community member, Scott:

http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/hplip.html

Akemi