HP Office Jet Pro 8100 - which ppd file?

mikepwagner

mikepwagner

I would like to use my HP OfficeJet Pro 8100 with my freeBSD laptop, but I can't find a ppd file. Is there a way around this?
 
T-Daemon said:
There are ppd’s for the HP Officejet Pro 8100 ready for use inside the HP Linux Imaging and Printing software. Just download the tar.gz file, extract it, go to the ppd folder.
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I see the laserjet, not the officejet:

root@freebsd:~/Downloads # ls hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/*office*
hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/hp-officejet_color_mfp_x585.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/hp-officejet_color_x555-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/hp-officejet_pro_251dw_printer-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/hp-officejet_pro_276dw_mfp-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/hp-officejet_pro_451_series-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/hp-officejet_pro_476_576_series-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/hp-officejet_pro_551_series-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/hp-officejet_pro_8000_enterprise_a811a-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/hp-officejet_pro_8210-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/hp-officejet_pro_8730-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/hp-officejet_pro_8732-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/prnt/ps/hp-officejet_pro_8740-ps.ppd.gz
 
Please look in the hplip-3.16.9/ppd folder:

% find hplip-3.16.9 -name hp-officejet_pro_8100*.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/ppd/hpcups/hp-officejet_pro_8100.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/ppd/hpijs/hp-officejet_pro_8100-hpijs.ppd.gz
 
T-Daemon said:
Please look in the hplip-3.16.9/ppd folder:

% find hplip-3.16.9 -name hp-officejet_pro_8100*.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/ppd/hpcups/hp-officejet_pro_8100.ppd.gz
hplip-3.16.9/ppd/hpijs/hp-officejet_pro_8100-hpijs.ppd.gz
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The version of hplip available in pkg is 3.16.8, and that didn't like either of those pdd files.

There is a 3.16.9 port available, and I tried "make install clean" with that, but it looks like it installed the old stuff in /usr/local/share/ppd/HP - it didn't install anything in /usr/local/share/ppd/hpcups or /usr/local/share/ppd/hpijs. I tried copying the hpcups and hpijs directories from the tar files to /usr/local/share, and that didn't work.

I may have to wait on the 3.16.9 package.
 
mikepwagner said:
The version of hplip available in pkg is 3.16.8, and that didn't like either of those pdd files.

There is a 3.16.9 port available, and I tried "make install clean" with that, but it looks like it installed the old stuff in /usr/local/share/ppd/HP - it didn't install anything in /usr/local/share/ppd/hpcups or /usr/local/share/ppd/hpijs. I tried copying the hpcups and hpijs directories from the tar files to /usr/local/share, and that didn't work.

I may have to wait on the 3.16.9 package.
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I don't understand anything about ports, but it looks like work/hplip-3.16.9/ppd has the 8100 files and /work/stage/usr/local/share/ppd does not, but the /work/stage/usr/local/share/ppd/HP is what gets installed:

michael@freebsd:/usr/ports/print/hplip % ls ./work/hplip-3.16.9/ppd
hpcups hpijs
michael@freebsd:/usr/ports/print/hplip % ls ./work/stage/usr/local/share/ppd
HP
michael@freebsd:/usr/ports/print/hplip % find . -name "*officejet*8100*"
./work/hplip-3.16.9/ppd/hpijs/hp-officejet_pro_8100-hpijs.ppd.gz
./work/hplip-3.16.9/ppd/hpcups/hp-officejet_pro_8100.ppd.gz
michael@freebsd:/usr/ports/print/hplip % ls /usr/local/share/ppd
HP
michael@freebsd:/usr/ports/print/hplip %
 
After a discussion with Ben Woods (the maintainer), I decided to just use cups.

That turned out to be a far simpler process than I had thought:
  1. add cupsd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc/conf.
  2. service cups restart
  3. open http://localhost:631/
  4. Administration->Add Printer
  5. pick the printer from the list
  6. the correct ppd is generated
  7. done
Big thanks to Ben for his help.

Mike
 
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