[Discuss] HP Printer Success

[George Farris]

On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 17:56 -0800, John Blomfield wrote:
> My Hp pcs 1210 all-in-one printer died on me yesterday after 12 years of 
> faithful service.  So today a replaced it with a HP Deskjet F4480 
> all-in-on after checking that HPLIP drive was supportive.  When it was 
> all plugged into my computer I found that hplip did not recognise the 
> F4480 and quickly realise the Debian Lenny version was seriously out of 
> date.  So I downloaded the latest hplip from HP and this the great 
> part!  I have never been so impressed by a piece of Linux software from 
> a manufacturer before.  Usually, you are faced with unpacking tar balls, 
> compiling and installing manually but in this case HP provided a 
> completely automated script file to do the whole job.  Worked like a 
> dream. They claim it works for a wide range of Linux distros.  The 
> future is here guys and is really cool!
> 

Write to HP and tell them this.  It's always great to get good feedback.

Cheers