[Feature Request] PhotoSmart 7200 front USB port

Asked by Panayiotis Karabassis

The PhotoSmart 7260 printer, and possibly other models in the 7200 series, have a front USB port that allows easily connecting a laptop, although with somewhat limited functionality (no card unloading etc).

Would it be difficult to add support for this port?

Right now hp-probe writes to syslog:

python: io/hpmud/model.c 524: no photosmart_7200_series~ attributes found in /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat
python: io/hpmud/model.c 535: no photosmart_7200_series~ attributes found in /usr/share/hplip/data/models/unreleased/unreleased.dat
python: io/hpmud/musb.c 1969: ignoring hp:/usb/photosmart_7200_series~?serial=CN38U3C016I5 support=0

However, by hand-editing models.dat to duplicate the [photosmart_7200_series] section and changing its name (to "photosmart_7200_series~") and product id (to "b102"), I was able to get hplip to autodetect the printer and print a test page.

Thanks in advance,
Panayiotis

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Best Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said :
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We can reproduce this and are working on a workaround.

We'll be fixing this in a future release of HPLIP. Not the next release but probably sometime after.

Thanks for your support and sorry for any inconvenience.

Aaron

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Panayiotis Karabassis (panayk) said :
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Thanks Aaron Albright, that solved my question.