Saturday 2 March 2013

Setting up printing and scanning of hp photosmart C310 printer over network with fedora 18

Here is what I did.

I installed the hplip packages: (sorry I don't know if I added any extra repository, but if you don't see it the only repositories I have added are the "rpmfusion free" and "rpmfusion free -updates")
  • HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
  • Files needed by the HPLIP printer and scanner drivers
  • HPLIP Graphical tools
  • HPLIP Libraries
Once I installed them I opened up Hp Device Manager (I pressed the search app button i.e. windows button).

Once open...
  • Selected Network/Ethernet/Wireless netowrk
  • Click Show Advanced Options
  • Select Manual Discovery
  • Type in IP address of printer (you can find this on printer press the wireless button on the display, the ip address should be listed, usually something like 192.168.0.<Something>)
  • Click Next
  • Your device should appear in the list and selected.
  • Click Next
  • Click Add Printer
  • You will probably need to enter your root/admin user name and password
Now the printer should be installed and also the scanner. 

You can check that the scanner is installed by using terminal and entering "scanimage -L" this will show you all scanning devices possibly webcams also.

You should be able to start up the scanning software and start scanning.

This link helped me :-)