[Cialug] plea for help on Ubuntu 12.10

[Josh More]

Printing always sucks. Buy two kindles and just email PDFs to one another.
;)

Josh

Please pardon the brevity of this electronic missive. It originated from a
handheld computing device which has less than ideal data input
capabilities. Thank you for understanding.
On Nov 14, 2012 6:43 PM, "Ralph Kessel" <ralphkessel75 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I   upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 to discover that HPLIP does not support my
> version of hp officejet 6600. I've tried every conceivable method to
> uninstall, reinstall, install from download, install non-automatic and the
> message among many is : Unable to open the initial device, quitting.  I and
> my wife are able to connect wirelessly  to printer from Windows 7.   I was
> able to connect under 12.04 but for some reason hplip does not like my
> connection even though my drivers are recognized by my cups 1.6.1.
> HP-check -t gives this  warning:
> warning: ubuntu-12.10 version is not supported. Using ubuntu-12.04
> versions dependencies to verify and install...
>
> Should I reinstall release 12.04  and foreget about 12.10 until they fix
> this bug?
> Ralph Kessel
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