Printing configuration needed for (Al)pine to HP Deskjet wireless using a2ps.

globetrotterdk · 04-27-2017, 11:00 AM

Complete newbie in this area. I would like to print from Alpine 2.20 to a wireless HP Deskjet 3632 printer with a2ps. I know absolutely nothing about printing from the command line with a2ps or any other program such as lp. I am aware of the info on the Arch website and have looked at the man page, but I don't really understand much (any) of this. Can someone please advise or post a URL for newbies to this subject? Thanks in advance.

dave67 · 05-16-2017, 01:06 PM

First this printer has wireless issues in linux you must use USB to print anything. What version of linux are you running? I suggest this model HP5530 or one in this series Works without issue with the hplip in mint. To scan documents install xsane scanner software. As for alpine I would ask them how to print. Here us a link to alpine

https://www.washington.edu/alpine/

globetrotterdk · 05-17-2017, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by dave67

First this printer has wireless issues in linux you must use USB to print anything. What version of linux are you running? I suggest this model HP5530 or one in this series Works without issue with the hplip in mint. To scan documents install xsane scanner software. As for alpine I would ask them how to print. Here us a link to alpine

https://www.washington.edu/alpine/

Thanks for the info. I don't experience any wireless problems at all with Ubuntu MATE 16.10. Wireless scanning works fine as well. There are from time to time an issue with the print queue "holding" print jobs rather than just printing.

dave67 · 05-18-2017, 05:59 AM

HP must had an update to hplip that fixed it. That print was not even on linuxprining.org it was such a pain to get working.