My home network doesn't have any wireless access points (to slow) and I was iSCSI booting my wkst for a while:) Now I need to setup a printer so I was going to get an HP Photosmart C4580.
The HPLIP page shows no network support:( I _was_ going to use a USB wireless nic I have and setup an ad-hoc to print to this thing.
Anyone know anything that might make this work?
Thanks! jlc
Am 15.09.2009 um 21:50 schrieb Joseph L. Casale:
My home network doesn't have any wireless access points (to slow) and I was iSCSI booting my wkst for a while:) Now I need to setup a printer so I was going to get an HP Photosmart C4580.
The HPLIP page shows no network support:( I _was_ going to use a USB wireless nic I have and setup an ad-hoc to print to this thing.
Anyone know anything that might make this work?
Does that actually work the way you intend it to? I have my doubts...
Buy a wireless AP and save a lot of trouble.
Is your time worth nothing?
Rainer
Am 15.09.2009 um 23:05 schrieb Joseph L. Casale:
Does that actually work the way you intend it to? I have my doubts...
It should, others do it:)
Hm. So you can setup networking to an USB-stick without an OS?
I thought you needed to load the firmware onto the stick before it does anything useful at all.
Rainer
Am 16.09.2009 um 00:09 schrieb Joseph L. Casale:
Hm. So you can setup networking to an USB-stick without an OS?
I thought you needed to load the firmware onto the stick before it does anything useful at all.
Apparently the HP's support this, at least some quick searches show people with success. Of course I haven't tried it:)
If you succeed, you can add an article to the wiki ;-)
Rainer
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
My home network doesn't have any wireless access points (to slow) and I was iSCSI booting my wkst for a while:) Now I need to setup a printer so I was going to get an HP Photosmart C4580.
The HPLIP page shows no network support:( I _was_ going to use a USB wireless nic I have and setup an ad-hoc to print to this thing.
Anyone know anything that might make this work?
get an ethernet printer, sheesh.
I have a Brother MFC7345N (Costco version of the 7340 with an ethernet interface) on my home LAN, is a B&W Laser, color scanner, copier, fax, both flatbed and sheet feed scanning/faxing/copying. does copy and fax without any host software involvement (too many cheap all-in-ones rely on a software utilities to do the copy/fax functionality). has 100baseT ethernet. Supports LPR/LPD protocols so Linux should be able to print to it just fine. Says the scanner supports Linux SANE protocol (I know nothing about this, never tried that part). We originally bought this $200 printer strictly to use as a fax machine, and after setting it up and playing with it, shut off our HP LJ1300 printer and use it for all our home printing.
I would not use a inkjet as a primary home printer, the supplies are too costly, and if they are used sporadically, you waste 2/3rds of the ink unclogging them. also inkjets require extra smooth extra heavy paper or they look like crap, while a laser can print on any old cheap copier paper. I have a techwriter wife and two school kids, so we do a LOT of printing at my place.
get an ethernet printer, sheesh.
I actually wanted wireless because of the location I want to put it:)
I have a Brother MFC7345N (Costco version of the 7340 with an ethernet interface) on my home LAN, is a B&W Laser, color scanner, copier, fax, both flatbed and sheet feed scanning/faxing/copying.
I have plenty of those brother MF's at one place and they are good and cheap, just not wireless.
I would not use a inkjet as a primary home printer, the supplies are too costly, and if they are used sporadically, you waste 2/3rds of the ink unclogging them. also inkjets require extra smooth extra heavy paper or they look like crap, while a laser can print on any old cheap copier paper. I have a techwriter wife and two school kids, so we do a LOT of printing at my place.
Ok, I am getting convinced:) jlc
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009, John R Pierce wrote:
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
My home network doesn't have any wireless access points (to slow) and I was iSCSI booting my wkst for a while:) Now I need to setup a printer so I was going to get an HP Photosmart C4580.
The HPLIP page shows no network support:( I _was_ going to use a USB wireless nic I have and setup an ad-hoc to print to this thing.
Anyone know anything that might make this work?
get an ethernet printer, sheesh.
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I would not use a inkjet as a primary home printer, the supplies are too costly, and if they are used sporadically, you waste 2/3rds of the ink unclogging them. also inkjets require extra smooth extra heavy paper or they look like crap, while a laser can print on any old cheap copier paper. I have a techwriter wife and two school kids, so we do a LOT of printing at my place.
One good thing about the HP splatjets is that they are designed so they don't clog after long periods of inactivity. I have an HP Photosmart 7350 that only is used when I want to print color. My only real complaint with this printer is that HP no longer provides software for in for OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard, and the generic gutenprint stuff doesn't do nearly as well with different paper types and such that the HP software does.
We use an HP 4M Plus with duplex for pretty much everything else. This was bought new in November 1995, and has been a true work horse. I spent about $200 last year to get it serviced, replacing all the rollers and such figuring that we couldn't get a better printer for the money.
Bill
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:20:00 -0700 Bill Campbell wrote:
One good thing about the HP splatjets is that they are designed so they don't clog after long periods of inactivity.
They may not clog, but they do dry out after a while. I have a HP fax machine that uses a black inkjet cartridge and while I don't receive very many faxes I find that I have to replace my cartridge once in a while because it dries out and stops working. It still reads 50-75% full, but it doesn't print.
In hindsight I should probably have sprung for a laser fax machine but it would have cost about twice as much as I paid for this inkjet. But toner doesn't dry out so I would have been ahead by now, I think....
Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:20:00 -0700 Bill Campbell wrote:
One good thing about the HP splatjets is that they are designed so they don't clog after long periods of inactivity.
They may not clog, but they do dry out after a while. I have a HP fax machine that uses a black inkjet cartridge and while I don't receive very many faxes I find that I have to replace my cartridge once in a while because it dries out and stops working. It still reads 50-75% full, but it doesn't print.
In hindsight I should probably have sprung for a laser fax machine but it would have cost about twice as much as I paid for this inkjet. But toner doesn't dry out so I would have been ahead by now, I think....
my $200 brother laser MFC gets 2-3 cases of copier paper out of a $50 toner cartridge. the paper is about $25/case (2000 sheets) so that brings it to about $100 per 4000 pages, or about $0.025/page. every 10000 pages or so I need to replace the drum, thats like $60 more, I think, so that brings it to $0.031/page total.
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 05:56:32 Frank Cox wrote:
hey may not clog, but they do dry out after a while.
I just brought a deskjet back into service after two years of non-use, and it printed immediately on the existing cartridges.
Anne
2009/9/16 Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 05:56:32 Frank Cox wrote:
hey may not clog, but they do dry out after a while.
I just brought a deskjet back into service after two years of non-use, and it printed immediately on the existing cartridges.
it was probably defective.
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 09:20:47 cornel panceac wrote:
2009/9/16 Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 05:56:32 Frank Cox wrote:
hey may not clog, but they do dry out after a while.
I just brought a deskjet back into service after two years of non-use, and it printed immediately on the existing cartridges.
it was probably defective.
Huh?
Anne
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 00:34:19 John R Pierce wrote:
get an ethernet printer, sheesh.
It's not always that simple. Sometimes an extra cable connection is just not an option.
My HP7180 works perfectly by wireless, including scanning.
Anne
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 20:50:52 Joseph L. Casale wrote:
My home network doesn't have any wireless access points (to slow) and I was iSCSI booting my wkst for a while:) Now I need to setup a printer so I was going to get an HP Photosmart C4580.
I print to my HP all-in-one via wireless, using hplip, so I can confirm that hplip isn't likely to be your problem.
The HPLIP page shows no network support:( I _was_ going to use a USB wireless nic I have and setup an ad-hoc to print to this thing.
Anyone know anything that might make this work?
Your firs need is to make sure that you can get any kind of connection using the usb thingumy. Can your turn off wireless on any other device and try getting it set up so that it works there? I wouldn't attempt it on the printer until I was sure that I knew it works elsewhere - too many unknowns.
Anne
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