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[Jay Hart]

Damn, I just threw out a perfectly good printer...

Jay

> On Thursday 18 March 2010 10:29:23 pm Michael Hans wrote:
>> I don't totally grok the 'woe is me' meme i'm sure your attempting but I
>> will say this, Linux is a savior in my house. My HP 1018 Laser Jet doesn't
>> work with my MacBook Pro UNLESS Linux HP client first soft-boots and
>> uploads it's firmware. Once the firmware is loaded and the printer stays
>> powered on my MacBook works fine, if it is powered down (which I do for
>> energy saving) and restarted it needs linux to 'straighten it out'
>>
>> Michael
>
> Well, I got my scanner working. After some digging through the HP web site I
> found the section for Linux support.
>
> http://www.hp.com/go/linuxprinting
>
> I entered the model information and my version of Linux (kubuntu 8.10) and got
> a message that the version of HPLIP that I had was out of date and didn't
> support this model. I downloaded a shell script which, when run, installed
> everything I needed.
>
> Now I have it scanning multiple pages just fine. What I haven't figured out is
> how to automate the process of putting those pages into a single pdf file. At
> the moment,I'm scanning them to a series of images that I save to disk. Then I
> put the images into OO-writer and export the final document to a pdf file.
>
> Anybody have a better idea?
>
> Dan
>
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