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HP Photosmart C4599

Field test
* Tested: HP Photosmart C4599

HP Linux Imaging and Printing (hplip)
hpijs
hpoj
* System: Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

GNOME 2.24.1
Linux Kernel 2.6.27-11-generic
* Hardware: Intel Pentium
IV 2.00 GHz

1024 MB RAM ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 256 MB DDR II *
Network:
1 x Siemens Gigaset SX541 WLAN dsl
1 x Windows XP PC (Wired)
1 x PC with Ubuntu 8.10 (Wired or Wireless)
x 2 Mac OS X (Wireless)
1 x HP Photosmart C4599 Printer (Wireless)

the usual. A beautiful jet printer ink HP compatible with Mac OS X (for which there is even a widget) and Windows puts up a fuss when ported to Linux.

In this case the printer you see "System -> Administration -> Printing. Now we just have to click on "New" and select it.

begin problems. What driver to use? There are drivers for the C4300 series and C4400 series but our no. This road is closed.

WARNING: I say first of all you have to make at least installation on Mac OS or Windows because the printer must be configured for your network!

NOTE: These procedures describe the actions to be taken to an HP Photosmart C4599 connected via wireless network, other configurations may be different .

course, HP is close all'opensource. Here then is the online repository to Synaptic and a beautiful hplip package called that provides better support for HP printers. Unfortunately

on the official website of the package is written clearly that the printer does not work over the network. We make an attempt anyway.

Once installed it appears in the menu "System -> Preferences" item "HPLIP Toolbox". Perfect.

If you have other HP printers installed a window will appear with the words "No installed HP devices found" and the command "Print Setup ...".

A window in which to choose the type of connection, in this case network.

further window will appear titled "Select from devices detected" but no device is detected. At this point we need to find the IP of the printer. To do this you can choose the "network analysis" on the display of the printer: it will print a sheet with (among other data) to be their IP.

Click on "Find Manually" and enter the IP (in my case 192.168.2.105) and it magically appears.

a third window that appears choose the driver, of course there is the one you want (there are C4400 and C5500), then choose the first. After the procedure, and our printer magically appear in the list of printers.

Does it work? Just try it, print a marvel.
And the scanner? Well have to wait for that, be content to print. Maybe it works via USB.

Ratings:
Compatibility: 5 / 10 (driver not corrected, are unofficial packages and the scanner does not work)
Ease of Installation: 7 / 10 (takes several adventures)
Print: 8 / 10 (fast , quiet and good quality)

Links:

• http://hplipopensource.com/
• http://www.hp.com/ Product #