HP 5255 Multi Function Printer

patostevens · 05-11-2020, 08:05 PM

I'm having a lot of trouble getting this installed. I've run hp printers for years with no issue. Using 14.2 64 bit. I can't find a way to install it and use anything but greyscale printing. Did I find the one HP printer that won't work?

bassmadrigal · 05-11-2020, 10:22 PM

That printer was released in 2018, 2 years after 14.2 was released, so it's likely that the HP drivers in 14.2 don't have full support for this printer.

You could try and build hplip using the source/SlackBuild from -current. Do make sure you have python3 installed as it's required.

Code:

wget -r -nH --no-parent --reject="index.htm*" --cut-dirs=4 https://mirror.slackbuilds.org/slackware/slackware64-current/source/ap/hplip/
cd hplip
sh hplip.SlackBuild
upgradepkg /tmp/hplip-*.txz

patostevens · 05-13-2020, 06:57 AM

Thank you for the help. I'll give it a try and report back.