TW> The solution is to download and build the HP printer package (known
 TW> as hplip) from source. The complete instructions are here. I had to
 TW> install the following extra packages before the configure and make
 TW> steps would succeed: libjpeg-dev, libsnmp-dev, libcups2-dev,
 TW> libusb-dev, python-dev, libsane-dev, and libcupsimage2-dev."

 TW> I am in NO WAY going to jump through those hoops. 

on ubuntu it is pretty simple...

sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev libsnmp-dev libcups2-dev libusb-dev
python-dev libsane-dev libcupsimage2-dev

the above is all on one line...

then the hplip source package is put in the same way... when i installed
the hplip stuff, i downloaded it and there was a script with it or it was a
self installing thing... i ran whatever it was which then ran thru the
compiling process and put everything in the proper place after which it
just worked... that was a couple of ubuntus ago... i'm still on ubuntu 10
on most of my machines and have a couple that are still ubuntu 8...

)\/(ark

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