Printer duplexing - HOLIP curiosity question??

[Mike McCarty]

William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I am just now going to download HPLIP.
> 
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 22:12 -0500, William Case wrote:
> 
>>Hi David;
> 
> 
>>No I don't have HPLIP.  I'll download it tomorrow.  One of my problems
>>was that CUPS had the HP psc 1300 driver.  I applied the psc 1310 driver
>>and everything (except duplexing) was working again. I don't know what
>>happened there.  I had a burp while I was updating CUPS this afternoon,
>>or I could have inveterately changed the driver while I was playing
>>around.
> 
> 
> s/inveterately/inadvertently/ -- always be careful when using a spell
> checker.
> 
> 
>>In any case, I have had enough for today.  Sourceforge.net has
>>instructions for installing HPLIP in fedora core 4.  I'll use them.
>>
>>Thanks for your trouble.
> 
> 
> But what is HPLIP?  I've read the release notes etc. on SourceForge, but
> what does HPLIP replace? -- my psc 1310 driver. Or, is it a new set of
> drivers that is equivalent to the Windows drivers.  Does it give me
> access to other tools like scanning (+ sane).  As a user did you notice
> any significant changes to the operation of CUPS or your printer?

Frankly, I've got the same questions. I've heard a few times about
HPLIP, but nowhere have I seen a list of features. The website for
it has something which claims to be a list of features, but which
is really just a changelog. So, although I downloaded it the other
day, I haven't built and installed it. I got HPIJS from HP, and
installed that months ago. I've been satisfied with the driver
per se, but not with not having a reasonable access to the features
of the printer I use.

Now, FC2 came with HPIJS, and the default install was great. But I
wanted more of the features available via the toolbox under Windows,
and the ability to do two-sided (non-duplexed) printing. So I got
the latest HPIJS from HP. But no extra features.

I don't own a scanner, so I don't need that I/F. I don't use a
digital camera, so I don't need special I/F for that. What I
have is a printer I want to use, and use all its features.

I wonder just what, really, is in HPLIP, and whether what it
has can be installed incrementally, or will it just eat a lot
of disc and memory.

Mike
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