HP Linux Imaging and Printing

In computing, the HPLIP (HP Linux Imaging and Printing) project—initiated and led by Hewlett-Packard (HP)—aims to ease GNU/Linux systems' ability to interact with HP's inkjet and laser printers with full printing, scanning, and faxing support. The supplied printer drivers support a total of 1,980 HP printer models and are free and open-source (FOSS), licensed under MIT, BSD, and GPL licenses. The project intends that HPLIP work in combination with CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) and SANE, to perform printing and scanning, respectively.

HPOJ, the HP OfficeJet Linux driver to get Hewlett Packard's OfficeJet printers to run with Linux, ceased development as of 13 March 2006 with the advent of HPLIP.

Tools

• An automated installer compatible with many different Linux distributions
• A graphical toolbox tool and faxing applications written in Qt which allow device configuration and various actions like printing and scanning
• A number of command-line utilities to configure and add devices, as well as to scan and print

Support

HP offers help and support for HPLIP on web sites.^[2][3]

References

External links

• HP Linux Imaging and Printing
• HPLIP at SourceForge
• HP.com - WWSolutions - Linux Printing and Imaging