[ale] Linux Mint 17 Not Recognizing Printer Device

[Jim Kinney]

The really expensive one: HP office jet 9130.
I still use it for scan to email ability.
On Nov 26, 2014 12:25 PM, "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Which model was that one with the exploding cartridge? I guess you could
> say the cartridge went out with a bang.
>
> On 11/25/2014 11:08 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>> Good call. I haven't used an HP printer in a while and had forgotten
>> about hplip tools. I vaguely recall getting a giant networked multifunction
>> HP scanner, printer, fax, copier to work rather well with hplip. Not used
>> it since the magenta cartridge exploded and trashed the printing ability.
>> Scan to email is really useful!
>>
>> On November 25, 2014 10:37:38 PM EST, Sergio Chaves <
>> sergio.chaves at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     I had the same issue with a Ubuntu box sometime ago.  The problem
>>     was a broken hplip package (did you have an update done recently?
>>     ). The solution was to download the package from the HP site and
>>     install it. Others reported that rolling back to an older version
>>     would also work. I did not try that.
>>
>>     On Nov 25, 2014 3:15 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         do other usb devices work?
>>
>>         On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Stephen R. Blevins
>>         <stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
>>         <mailto:stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             I have three systems, one running Linux Mint 13 (32 bit),
>>             and two that are running Linux Mint 17 (32 bit).  I have a
>>             USB-attached printer (HP 895Cse Desket) that these system
>>             suddenly ceased to recognize. Attempting to delete the
>>             printer definitions and re-install it doesn't work (the
>>             printer is not recogniz ed as being attached to the system
>>             and, therefore, available).
>>
>>             What has me confused is that my Dell Inspirion 1525
>>             laptop, running Linux Mint 17 (64 bit) does recognize it.
>>          I can't convert my other systems to 64 bit because their
>>             hardware won't support it.
>>
>>             What am I missing?
>>             --             Stephen R. Blevins
>>             stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
>>             <mailto:stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com>
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