Cleaning and aligning a remote printer

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 19:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:10 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 17 May 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 09:54 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > > On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 19:40 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > > > > I understand that hplip can perform various maintenance routines.
> > > > > > >  Is there any way of getting it to work on a remote printer?  The
> > > > > > > box with it attached is FC4, and I think hplip was not available
> > > > > > > at that time.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Anne
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have hplip installed on my FC4 system. It is not an rpm but
> > > > > > probbably gotten from sourceforge.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks, Aaron.  I'll look at that.  I guess that I had simply assumed
> > > > > that it wasn't possible, as I hadn't heard of it until relatively
> > > > > recently.
> > > >
> > > > Anne, just ls /usr/bin/hp* and you should see a pile of hp utils...
> > > > most are links but each option is there for your considerations. :) Ric
> > >
> > > Hmm...
> > >
> > > ls /usr/bin/hp*
> > > /usr/bin/hpftodit  /usr/bin/hpijs  /usr/bin/hpojip-test
> >
> > Wow! You are missing stuff:
> >
> > ls /usr/bin/hp*
> > /usr/bin/hp-align     /usr/bin/hp-levels      /usr/bin/hp-testpage
> > /usr/bin/hp-check     /usr/bin/hp-makecopies  /usr/bin/hp-timedate
> > /usr/bin/hp-clean     /usr/bin/hp-makeuri     /usr/bin/hp-toolbox
> > /usr/bin/hp-colorcal  /usr/bin/hp-print       /usr/bin/hp-unload
> > /usr/bin/hp-fab       /usr/bin/hp-probe       /usr/bin/hpftodit
> > /usr/bin/hp-firmware  /usr/bin/hp-sendfax     /usr/bin/hpijs
> > /usr/bin/hp-info      /usr/bin/hp-setup
> >
> > There's the good stuff you want.. indeed! <winks and eyebrow
> > waggles> ...using good ole smart I found all of these in hplip 1.7.2-3
> > install or re-install it to have all of these really nifty bins!! I know
> > this will make an English Lady's day! Ric
> 
> And these are all available for FC4?
> 
> I'm not prepared to do too much work on this, as that box is due for a 
> rebuild.
> 
> Anne
Again many (but not all) of these are in the sourceforge HPLIP package.
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