The HPLIP (HP Linux Imaging and Printlng) project—initiated and led by

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(HP)—aims to ease

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systems' ability to interact with HP's

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and

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s with full printing, scanning, and faxing support. the supplied printer-drivers support a total of 3,088 HP printer models; many of these for low-end models are free and open-source (FOSS), licensed under MIT, BSD, and GPL licenses, but others (including all color laser MFC printers on the market for years) require proprietary binary blobs ("plug-ins"). The project intends that HPLIP work in combination with

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(Common UNIX Printing System) and SANE to perform printing and scanning respectively. ''HPOJ'', the HP OfficeJet Linux driver to get HP's

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printers to run with

, ceased development as of 13 March 2006 with the advent of HPLIP.

Tools

Tools include: * an automated installer compatible with many different

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s * 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

Implementation

HPLIP co-operates with hpiod processes and files.

Support

HP offers help and support for HPLIP.HP HPLIP help and support
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References

External links

HP Linux Imaging and Printing
resources on th
HP Developer Portal

HPLIP at SourceForge

HP Linux Printing and Imaging Support information

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