I am still the OP. **pcardout** and **pcardout2** are the same guy ... I just can't figure out how I logged in originally.
While my original procedure is correct, it's all been messed up by the collapse of the
openprinting.org website, which has now been down for several months. I went back
to Hewlett-Packard, and they are now hosting the necessary "plugins". They
do not seem to provide old versions, but if you upgrade to the latest HPLIP, they always
have the plugin for that. Here is my correspondence with HP support.
> Your question #177357 on HPLIP
> changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/177357
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Amarnath Chitumalla proposed the
> following answer: Hi Richard,
xxxxx,
>
> To use 3.11.10 plugin, needs upgrade
> HPLIP to 3.11.10 version. and
> 3.11.10 plugin will be automatically downloaded using following site when
> you run hp-setup command.
>
> http://www.hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/plugin_download.html
I went to the link given above and downloaded the plugin. I then went back to the main HPLIP
site and downloaded the latest .run file which installs HPLIP and followed those instructions.
While Mr. Chitumalla (HP support) suggested that hp-setup would automatically find the plugin, I
did not assume that would work. I had already downloaded the plugin ... as above, and
there is a "manual install from local copy" option on hp-setup. I chose that and gave it
the plugin file. It all worked easily.
So for all those folks saying
> where can I find hplip-3.11.7-plugin.run
or
> openprinting.org down, where to get the hp-plugin
... this is the answer.
HP has it... as they should! (It's just not very well documented!!!!)
