Cleaning and aligning a remote printer

[Anne Wilson]

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
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