Bill what is it exactly you’re trying to do get the printer working or the scanner working or both ?
No, I just want the printer that works best. I have the HP on at the moment. XSane and Simplescan work OK. The problem is getting Page plus in windows 7 and XP to recognise the printer which I need for jobs that I do. I’ll get the computer engineer to sort that out. The Canon is a better and more expensive printer but not so good for Linux. Linux don’t seem to do a DTP that’s good enough withr scanning & printing as part of the programme.
Have you installed the Windows drivers for the HP printer (in Windows) ?
If necessary, we probably could get the Canon scanner working in Linux, but it’ll likely be some work.
I have the printer and scanner for HP working for Linux. The printer works but not the scanner for windows, a lot of the downloads have spyware and pop up adverts also browser page hijacking. The printer driver downloads but it looks like the scanner driver doesn’t. I had to spend a lot time just getting rid of the unwanted stuff. I must remember in the future never to buy a printer without the installation disc.
What’s the model of your HP AiO ?
and what version of WinLOL ?
HP fr2180 3 in 1. Two caddies Windows XP and Windows 7
Doesn’t it work in either Windows version ?
How is it connected USB or network ?
Conected by USB. The problem is with both windows 7 and XP which idicates no scanner driver. The printer works but not the scanner. If I cant get the scanner to work I am toying with the idea of getting another HP fr2189 on eBay to get the installation disc which would include the scanner driver and keep the printer as a spare. But the engineer is popping in on Monday, he should be able to fix it. They don’t have these problems on star trek.
I can find no reference to a fr2189 by HP
Does the printer have something like deskjet 3160 or similar on it ?
If not, plug it in and turn it on in Linux, and post the output from:
lsusb
Hi Mark, following this thread with interest, actually Bill said HP fr2180 in an earlier post, this is there if you look it up, then he said fr2189 looks like a typo to me.
Cheers,
Degsy
Bill, try www.siliconguide.com, type in your hp model and the drivers are there for 7 and XP for download.
Degsy
Probably best to get them directly from HP … is this the printer/scanner:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?cc=uk&lc=en&dlc=en&product=3177562
http://linuxforums.org.uk/MGalleryItem.php?id=1540
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HP Deskjet F2180 All-in-One Printer
(drivers at the above link, directly from HP)
Including Linux drivers … but don’t use them if it’s already working.
Thanks Degsy … I must have missed the first reference to the model :-[
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Thanks, the HP site is rather complicated but I managed to download and get the printer and scanner working on Windows 7. Windows XP works in a kind of fashion, very slow and aggravating but I’m not too bothered about that because I will eventually change it for Windows 7 or even windows nine, I have heard they are working on it due to the windows 8 problems. The Linux scanners are OK but there’s no DTP programme with scanning and printing built in. Hopefully someone will create or improve on a one in the future, unless one exist that I don’t know about.
Windows 9 … god help us 
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And by “god”, I’m not talking about Steve Ballmers complex
Why are you using Windows 7 and XP? Is it for a work computer?
He can’t find a Linux DPT package he likes as much as the Windows one he uses … nothing wrong with that.
We all move onto Linux at a rate that suits our individual needs
What is DPT? No wasn’t being mean- thought it might be work computer. There’s only one thing I liked in Windows and that is the fonts- they have some really nice ones that look like nineteenth century handwriting. I hope Linux will expand on their fonts!
Nothing stopping you installing ANY TTF fonts (and others), including those that come with Windows/Office in Linux … except possibly the license
You can download millions of fonts online and install them in Linux … they’ll then become accessible to your applications … same as Windows.
DTP = DeskTop Publishing
Just downloaded Scribus from the package manager- think I see a few more fonts in Libre Office, is that where they go in the fonts bar?
No … you’d download them, put them in the hidden .fonts directory … then run a command to update the font cache.
Scribus is not about fonts … it’s a Linux DTP application … though it ^might^ come with some extra fonts, I can’t remember.