small footprint driver package (https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/215565)

[Sanjay Kumar]

Dear HPLIB team,

I’m working with the HP Imaging & Printing Sales team on sales opportunity at a customer in Germany.

The customer is using openSUSE 11.4 (x86-Architektur), and looking into the following HP products.

HP LaserJet 400 m401dn
HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 MFP m525f
HP LaserJet p3015 Printer
HP Color LaserJet cp4020 Series Printer
HP LaserJet m4555 MFP
HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 Color MFP m575f
HP Color LaserJet cm4540 Multifunction Printer
HP LaserJet Enterprise 700 Color MFP m775z
HP LaserJet m5035xs Multifunction Printer

As per the above list all devices a supported by the current HPLIB version.

For internal reasons, the customer is not able and willing to install the complete HPLIP Library, but looking for a smaller footprint package, that doesn’t depend on all the libraries (i.e. Python).
Also the customer requires the Personal PIN Print functionality.
We tried to use the PPD’s from the extracted HPLIP .tar. files, but the PPD files are using Filters, which then require libraries like Python to be present on the system.

The question I have, is there a way to build a minimum footprint driver package for the above printers, that includes the Personal PIN Print functionality, without the dependencies on any other Linux library ?

Thanks for your feedback and help in advanced.

Kind regards

Torsten Klemm

[Sanjay Kumar (sanjay-kumar14)]

Hi,

Please follow below mentioned instructions.

1) Download Install_PinPrint.run and PPDs.tar from the attachments and extract PPDs.tar.

2) Install hplipjs filter using following command in the terminal.

      $sh Install_PinPrint.run

3) Add print queue using "system-config-printer" command or cups interface (localhost:631) and provide the modified PPD (provided in the attachment) path when prompted.

4) Try printing.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Sanjay