HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Working in Its Printers

Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by Nullabillity on Sunday September 18, 2016 @03:21AM (#12524302)

"Good" Linux support means being able to just download a PPD and shove it into CUPS. AFAIK HP is the only one that requires their own crappy GUI on top.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by lvillani on Sunday September 18, 2016 @03:47AM (#12524353)

Personally, I never ever had to use hplip's GUI tool, except for configuring wireless printing. After doing so, I could uninstall it and use bog-standard CUPS.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by tome on Sunday September 18, 2016 @03:24AM (#12524310)

I've had a couple of HP printers on Linux and they didn't require a GUI.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by gmazza on Sunday September 18, 2016 @11:32AM (#12525688)

The only time I had to use (admittedly annoying) HP GUI installer is for scanner part of HP CM1015 MFP. Printer part of the same MFP worked fine with just normal CUPS.

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Re:HP Allegedly Time Bombs Unofficial Ink Cartridges from Wo... by babuskov on Sunday September 18, 2016 @03:55AM (#12524362)

At my previous job we installed dozens of different HP printers on Linux. We never needed to launch a GUI.

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