The installation procedure was almost straightforward and can be summarized in two parts, printer and scanner configuration.
The steps associated with the printer configuration were those:
- Verify that you have installed CUPS in your Linux system
- Execute the following command as root:
yum install hplip-common hplip-gui hplip-libs hplip hpijs - Go to http://www.hplib.net and download the latest version of hplip. At this time, it is hplib-3.10.6.tar.gz. Despise you have already installed the hplib software, the required driver is not still available in your system. So untar the following files, as follows:
tar xfz hplip-3.10.6.tar.gz hplip-3.10.6/ppd/hpijs/hp-photosmart_c4700_series-hpijs.ppd.gz hplip-3.10.6/ppd/hpcups/hp-photosmart_c4700_series.ppd.gz
Now, point your browser at http://localhost:631, add a new printer and select the "HP Photosmart C4700 series" option. Then, continue the configuration procedure as usual.
Verify that everything is ok, printing the test page :-D
For enabling the scanning procedure, I did execute the following steps:
- yum install gnome-scan gnome-scan-libs
- yum install libsane-hpaio
Like other command line tools is not intuitive at all but its help output is, in fact, very helpful. My command line to scan a sheet is as follows:
- scanimage -d hpaio:/usb/Photosmart_C4700_series?serial=CN04HM20GK05HD > salida.png
The parameter -d hpaio:/usb/Photosmart_C4700_series?serial=CN04HM20GK05HD indicates the device that will be used for scanning. The standard output would be redirected towards a PNG file, salida.png. Now, use your regular image viewer to see the results.
Any comments please let me know.
2 comments:
I can now enjoy my photo printing with this configuration.
Thanks for the article! I just thought I'd point out that the website is hplip.net, not hplib.net. Thanks again!
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