HP has provided a tool now to easily download the firmware for all their printers which need a firmware file. So you need not to compile the foo2zjs driver package or create a print queue with HP's hp-setup any more.
If you have HPLIP 2.8.12 (on Jaunty) do:
sudo hp-plugin
and follow the instructions on the screen. This downloads and installs the firmware files for all HP printers which need such a file. After that it looks for existing print queues of such printers and uploads the firmware files into them immediately. So you will be able to print from all auto-generated queues for these printers immediately after the tool has finished.
I plan to integrate the call of the tool into system-config-printer.
An additional hint: On a default installation of Jaunty you will perhaps get presented a text mode interface in your terminal window. To get a graphical interface, run
sudo apt-get install hplip-gui
before running hp-plugin. Note that this installs some MB of additional packages.
HP has provided a tool now to easily download the firmware for all their printers which need a firmware file. So you need not to compile the foo2zjs driver package or create a print queue with HP's hp-setup any more.
If you have HPLIP 2.8.12 (on Jaunty) do:
sudo hp-plugin
and follow the instructions on the screen. This downloads and installs the firmware files for all HP printers which need such a file. After that it looks for existing print queues of such printers and uploads the firmware files into them immediately. So you will be able to print from all auto-generated queues for these printers immediately after the tool has finished.
I plan to integrate the call of the tool into system- config- printer.
An additional hint: On a default installation of Jaunty you will perhaps get presented a text mode interface in your terminal window. To get a graphical interface, run
sudo apt-get install hplip-gui
before running hp-plugin. Note that this installs some MB of additional packages.