[gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

[gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

[gottlieb]

I will be buying a new printer and am considering three members of the
HP 8600 class

HP officejet pro 8600 (N911a)

HP officejet pro 8600 plus (N911g)

HP officejet pro 8600 premium (N911n)

The first two are listed on the hplip site as having full support and
recommended.  The third is not listed, which I found surprising.

Any recommendations/suggestions/experiences would be appreciated.

thanks,
allan

Re: [gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

[Bruce Hill]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 07:58:42PM -0400, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
> I will be buying a new printer and am considering three members of the
> HP 8600 class
> 
> HP officejet pro 8600 (N911a)
> 
> HP officejet pro 8600 plus (N911g)
> 
> HP officejet pro 8600 premium (N911n)
> 
> The first two are listed on the hplip site as having full support and
> recommended.  The third is not listed, which I found surprising.
> 
> Any recommendations/suggestions/experiences would be appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
> allan

Not exactly what you asked about, but want to comment that we're using a
HP Officejet Pro 8500 A910 for over 2 years with great results. We use it
wired, and everything on the LAN can print to it at 192.168.100.5. It has a
web interface for scanning that beats everything I've used before. IIRC the
8600 is an upgrade of the 8500. We've used HP exclusively since switching to
Linux OSes in 2003, because HP provides drivers for Linux systems, and the
quality of their product for the price beats the competition (IMO).

I once did a fax from it, but refuse to use fax in the 21st century.

Cheers,
Bruce
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Re: [gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

[Thomas Mueller]

> I will be buying a new printer and am considering three members of the
> HP 8600 class
        
> HP officejet pro 8600 (N911a)
        
> HP officejet pro 8600 plus (N911g)
        
> HP officejet pro 8600 premium (N911n)
        
> The first two are listed on the hplip site as having full support and
> recommended.  The third is not listed, which I found surprising.
        
> Any recommendations/suggestions/experiences would be appreciated.

> thanks,
> allan

Given my ill luck with HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP, I don't want to buy anything more from HP, unless I get this printer working, and then I'd need toner.

My ill luck was with FreeBSD and NetBSD, and hplip makes assumptions on Linux file structure that are different in the BSDs.

I do intend to try with Linux, and also try the MS-Windows drivers on FreeBSD with wine.

I might try Brother.


Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

[gottlieb]

thank you bruce and tom.

allan

Re: [gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

[Thomas Mueller]

from Walt:

> On 09/02/2013 08:17 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Given my ill luck with HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP, I don't want to buy
> > anything more from HP, unless I get this printer working, and then
> > I'd need toner.
>
> > My ill luck was with FreeBSD and NetBSD, and hplip makes assumptions
> > on Linux file structure that are different in the BSDs.
>
> > I do intend to try with Linux, and also try the MS-Windows drivers on
> > FreeBSD with wine.
        
> I've found that the postscript-printer-definition (ppd) files included
> in net-print/gutenprint work much better for me than the ones included
> in net-print/hplip, which is published by HP.
        
> I've also heard other people grumble about the quality of HP printer
> drivers not being as good as HP printers, but that's just hearsay :)

I see I don't have guenprint installed, maybe I ought to.

Bigger problem may be that HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP requires a proprietary plugin download.


Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

[J. Roeleveld]

On Thu, September 5, 2013 04:25, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from Walt:
>
>> On 09/02/2013 08:17 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> > Given my ill luck with HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP, I don't want to buy
>> > anything more from HP, unless I get this printer working, and then
>> > I'd need toner.
>>
>> > My ill luck was with FreeBSD and NetBSD, and hplip makes assumptions
>> > on Linux file structure that are different in the BSDs.
>>
>> > I do intend to try with Linux, and also try the MS-Windows drivers on
>> > FreeBSD with wine.
>
>> I've found that the postscript-printer-definition (ppd) files included
>> in net-print/gutenprint work much better for me than the ones included
>> in net-print/hplip, which is published by HP.
>
>> I've also heard other people grumble about the quality of HP printer
>> drivers not being as good as HP printers, but that's just hearsay :)
>
> I see I don't have guenprint installed, maybe I ought to.
>
> Bigger problem may be that HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP requires a proprietary
> plugin download.

If I understand correctly, that is for the scanner-function. Not to
actually print.

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Re: [gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:25:51PM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> from Walt:
> 
> > On 09/02/2013 08:17 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > > Given my ill luck with HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP, I don't want to buy
> > > anything more from HP, unless I get this printer working, and then
> > > I'd need toner.
> >
> > > I do intend to try with Linux, and also try the MS-Windows drivers on
> > > FreeBSD with wine.
>         
> > I've found that the postscript-printer-definition (ppd) files included
> > in net-print/gutenprint work much better for me than the ones included
> > in net-print/hplip, which is published by HP.

Thanks for the tip, I'll try that, too for by Laserjet 1000. I used to
use foo2zjs, which got masked at some point. I'm annoyed by hplip's tray
area program.

> > I've also heard other people grumble about the quality of HP printer
> > drivers not being as good as HP printers, but that's just hearsay :)
> 
> I see I don't have guenprint installed, maybe I ought to.
> 
> Bigger problem may be that HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP requires a proprietary plugin download.

That plugin download is what was broken for me. If you use python 3 in
your system, then the download will silently fail because the script is
written in python 2, but its shebang says only "python".
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