[ale] Linux Mint 17 Not Recognizing Printer Device

[Scott Castaline]

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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