HPLIP

Time-setting compatibility

Asked by Hastlaug

Hello,

I'm wondering if setting the device's date and time by HPLIP is possible for all fully supported models?

I consider buying the M476dw - being able to set date and time centrally from a Linux box (via network) is essential to me.
Does anybody know if this is going to work?

Thanks!

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Sanjay Kumar (sanjay-kumar14) said : 		#1

Hello Hastlaug,

Setting date and time feature does not work for M476dw (currently there is a bug in HPLIP for this device). We can provide a patch to enable setting a date and time for M476dw device. Please note that setting date will behave as below.

=> Time and date can be set by running "hp-timedate" command in the terminal.
=> You need to add fax queue because setting date and time works only on fax queue.
=> There is no option to provide custom date and time in the argument while running "hp-timedate", instead this takes Linux system date and time and sets on the device.

Please let us know if that feature behavior caters to your needs. If so then I can provide you the patch which you can apply after installing latest HPLIP version from http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html.

Thanks,
Sanjay

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