Comment 7 for bug 773374

Hi Goutam,

One of the first things that I did was install hplip-3.11.12 from hplipopensource.com as you have suggested, however, that doesn't fix anything. The problem does not have anything to do with the hplip version that you are running. The problem is that the hpijs driver does not work with the standard hp:/net connection but the hpijs driver does work fine (for printing only) as long as you use the socket:// connection. That is, the scanner functions will not work with the socket:// connection. Therefore, if you want to use both scanning and printing on a HP OfficeJet 8500 then you must setup two devices, one for printing and another for scanning. Also, as previously stated, the hpcups driver works somewhat with the hp:/net connection for both printing and scanning, however, the hpcups driver will not print graphical images such as bar codes for FedEX and UPS mailing labels.

In other words, I have devised a work-around but it is an ugly kluge. The solution should be one of the following two alternatives:

1) Either make the hpijs driver work with the standard hp:/net connection so that printing and scanning will work from one device configuration; or

2) Fix the bug in the hpcups driver so that it will print bar code images.

Gordon