Print from YUN direct to WiFi Printer?

Official Hardware Classic Yún
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I would like to print directly to my WiFi HP Officejet Pro 8600 printer while in OpenWRT.
I have the URL and Hostname of the printer. I see that HP has HPLIP (HP Linux Imaging & Printing) drivers
but as a novice I don't have a clue if or how to install them.
The HP page shows the command 'sh hplip-3.14.10.run'

Advice?

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N0URE,
I have this exact model of printer. It is notorious for loosing it's own settings.
I recommend a direct wire, if you can. Otherwise, expect to reprogram the
connection every few weeks of months. There other issue will be that Yun
may need more software than can be loaded on it.

I recommend you ship the file to another computer and print from there.
Perhaps another Linux box. Then once you have it working on that computer
you'll have a fighting chance to move it to the Yun.

Jesse

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You can install hplip with opkg.

opkg update
opkg install hplip
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Angelo9999,

The install seams to have gone well. I have not found the documentation of how to use it.
A challenge for a novice.

JC

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It seems that hplip is a package that adds support for the printers. Then you need other software to print/scan

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/tech_docs/man_pages/index.html

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Angelo9999

I am not making good progress.
From the ...tech_docs.. you listed it appears that I have two problems.
From the 'Supported Printer' list the Officejet Pro 8600 requires Version 3.11.10 of hplip.
Using the "opkg info hplip" command lists that I have version 3.9.12 installed.
Who can I ask that a more current version to be placed into the opkg library for YUN?

Second item -- I cannot get any commands from hplip to run i.e hp-setup.
I only get -ash: hp-setup: not found.

Are you able to get hplip to converse?

JC

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N0URE:
From the 'Supported Printer' list the Officejet Pro 8600 requires Version 3.11.10 of hplip.
Using the "opkg info hplip" command lists that I have version 3.9.12 installed.
Who can I ask that a more current version to be placed into the opkg library for YUN?

Try to search if a newer version is available for OpenWRT and try to install it manually in your board.
Transfer the .ipk file with scp and run opkg indicating the file.

N0URE:
Second item -- I cannot get any commands from hplip to run i.e hp-setup.
I only get -ash: hp-setup: not found.

hp-setup is a different package that is not available in the Yun repository. It is not part of the hplip package, same for other hp-* packages.