Mandrake 10 and HP All-in ones

[Mel 0]

I installed Mandrake 10 on the HP551.It seems to have found all the hardware.

It even knows how to scan and print with OfficeJet r60 all-in-one. Well,sort of.

..The GIMP can scan images ok but,for some reason ,it can't find the r60 printer.

However a file scanned at the default 75 dpi can be saved as *.ps and printed with

Kooka but kooka can't handle a 300 dpi file which I consider minimum for a decent photo

print.

For a 300 dpi file, save as *.jpeg and Konquerer can bring it up and print. (You will

only see a fraction of the picture on Konquerer without scrolling.)(I'm referring to full

page images.)

As soon as I get time I'll try the HP PSC2210 All-In-One. If MDK 10 can handle HP all-in-ones

,then I think some programmers are really doing thier homework.

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Keep up the good work Mandrake. It ain't perfect but it's a h*$$ of a lot closer than

anything I've found so far.

 

[danleff 0]

This is good news for some users who have these all-in-one systems. Let us know how it comes out.

[Mel 0]

MDK 10 works fine with HP PSC 2210 and OfficeJet r60 all-in-ones.

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Scan with GIMP and save. (Save as postscript if you want to use Kooka or as

jpeg if you want to use Konquerer.) (See first post this thread.)

BTW, a full page scan will print about the last 1.5 inches on a second page if

not scaled down. You can scale down with GIMP before saving.

Please post any problems and solutions you find ,also any tweaks and/or techniques you

find that help.Things that are obvious to you may not be to others.(Especially me, some

days I can't find the chair I'm sitting in.)

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Soulnothing, this is on the HP. Hope it works as well with yours.

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In the next few days I hope to try the old Mustek MFS-6000cx. Have to set up

MDK 10 on older box since card won't fit these boxes.Also have a parrallel scanner

somebody gave me ,gonna try it too.

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Yeah , I love it when a plan comes together.(Especially since I'm not the planning type,I

just jump in and go.)

 

Does anyone know where I can DL a Linux photo program ?

 

I need to try my digi.cam. with Linux.

[danleff 0]

What do you want to do, edit photos and slideshow them?

 

If so, Mandrake 10 comes with flphoto.

 

I have not tried it yet, but is is a basic program.

 

Also, there is JAlbum, which is good at the same. I think that they both use gphoto as a backend.

 

This is my next project. To work on some photos.

 

What camera do you have?

[Mel 0]

I have an HP 810 .It makes pretty good pictures.4mpx. 3mpx makes

good 8x10 prints.2.5 will work but less than 3 can get a little

grainy on 8x10 print.2.5 will make an OK 5x7.

Made a hard copy of your post.Will check out your suggested files.

Thanks.

[Mel 0]

Thanks ,Danleff, I installed flphoto and it looks ok.

Printed a couple sheets and they look good.I need to tinker

with it a little but I think it will do just fine.

It recognized and worked well with my camera.Had 18 photos on

camera and it picked them up very well.

[Mel 0]

Mandrake 10 handles printing and scanning well with HP all-in-ones.

You can scan with Gaim , Kooka or Xsane.

Although Kooka has a print function,I haven't gotten it to work with USB.It did ok with parrelell but insists on postscript file.

Before scanning you should make a folder to save your images.Save all your images to this folder.

I save mine as *.jpeg to print with 'konquerer' or 'Flphoto'.

The HP usb all-in-ones work well, at least on my machines.

The parralell HP all-in-ones have one small glitch ,which is, it spits out one sheet of paper on bootup.Other than that it works fine.

To set up,you will have to do a 'manual' setup which consists of selecting 'Hewlet Packard' from a list then selecting 'Drivers for HP parralell and usb all-in-one devices'.

That's it.folks. I just need to find a little better photo program.

 

 

[danleff 0]

Nice! I have not used Gimp yet. I have to give this a try.

[Mel 0]

Well I discovered accidentally that Mandrake 10 isn't bound by the old 'last on first off' rule like the other linux distros I've tried.

Mandrake 10 recognizes and utilizes peripheral devices which are turned on after bootup.

By turning on the parrallel HP all-in-ones after bootup,the printer doesn't spit out a sheet of paper which I found very annoying.

[Mel 0]

Make my last post a 'maybe'.Turning on the HP all-in-one

after bootup works on one machine and doesn't on the other.

[Ste 0]

Hi, I have a PSC 1210. It worked fine under Mandrake 9.1, after downloading and installing HPIJS 1.5 and HPOJ from internet. I had just a little problem because i didn't have libusb installed on my system, but after libusb installation printing and scanning were perfect.

 

But...

 

In Mandrake 10, my PSC 1210 was found by the installer. When I tried to print a page, the printer went crazy: it continued to feed paper, and the only way to stop it was turning off its power! My USB cable has a blue LED, that lights on when data is flowing; well, it was always on !!

 

It seems this is a known problem, and maybe a kernel issue.

 

What do you think ?

[Mel 0]

From desktop start menu;

click on "system'

click on "configuration"

click on "configure your computer"

enter root password

click on "select hardware"

click on "printers"

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"Auto detect printers connected to this machine" should work.If not,try starting over and unselect "Auto detect printers connected to this machine".You'll have a couple choices to make.

Do not use "scannerdrake",it's almost as confused as I am with HP drivers.

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If this doesn't help,maybe Danleff or Dapper Dan can help.Those guys are great at finding solutions and helpful links.I rate them as genius when I'm looking for linux info.

 

[Mel 0]

OOPS!

I should have posted this first.

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From desktop,go to System/configuration/packaging/install software.

enter password

At find, select "In descriptions",enter "hpoj",search.

At bottom left,you'll see "Search results".

check the two items under "Search results".

A box should pop up that lists dependencies.

Click "OK"

Follow prompts to install correct drivers.

Everything will be on your installation discs.

Just insert disks as prompted.