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Current HP Photosmart C6380 support in Ubuntu

Asked by Aaron Whitehouse

Hello,

First of all, I applaud HP's support of Gnu/Linux and this was the reason that I chose an HP printer. I have just ordered an HP Photosmart C6380.

I have Googled quite a bit and read most of the introductory material on the HPLIP, linuxprinting and foomatic websites. I still have a few questions that I can't figure out and was hoping for some help:
1) https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/46885 and https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/46891 talk about support for the C6380 needing to be added. The printer is both supported and recommended on http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/photosmart/photosmart_c6300_series.html , so I assume that this support has been added. Is that correct?

2) http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-Photosmart_C6380 is a user-contributed printer entry and the printer is not in foomatic. Does this matter? Will it be added to foomatic?

3) How do HPLIP and foomatic interact? If I am using CUPS on Ubuntu, which will it use?

4) I do not particularly like installing vendor-specific applications to use hardware - I prefer to use standard interfaces/applications to print etc. Will installing HPLIP improve the print quality and functionality, or does it simply provide an application to print and scan photos etc.? Are the "official" HP drivers used automatically by CUPS if I don't install HPLIP?

Thanks for helping!

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

The Photosmart C6380 is supported by HPLIP. Depending on which version of Ubuntu you are using support is more then likely included.

The Ubuntu printer configuration utility uses HPLIP to add support for the printer. More specific it uses the HPLIP backend with CUPS. As for print quality HPLIP does add many printing settings.

Please configure the printer using: sudo hp-setup

Although more than likely your printer will be automatically configured.

Thanks for your support of HPLIP--we appreciate it.

Aaron

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