From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-5smp i686) Description of problem: I filed the request for enahncement under ghostscript, but actually it involves somewhat more packages. Hard to believe but RedHat is the only major Linux distribution not providing support for HP all-in-one office-jet printers/scanners, this despite there is a free software solution (see hpoj.sourceforge.net) which is included in Mandrake, SUSE, Debian etc. This is very common hardware from a major vendor, which provides support for Linux and for open source drivers. I was very surprised to see that in the public beta there is not yet any support for the low level drivers required for printing and scanning on these systems. I was able to install from sources and make my own hardware work under RH7.3 both for printing and scanning, after a lengthy and painful process (which implied changes in sane as well). Mandrake has already available rpm's for its beta for the very latest hpoj release (0.90) just few days after release. Is it true that RedHat is no longer providing the best support even for common hardware like this and that, like many are rumouring, printing under RedHat is not at all the best supported field? I really hope this will be corrected in time for the next official release. A loyal (somewhat disappointed) customer who bought boxed sets for ALL releases since 5.0 included. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. no support for the low level drivers required by a vast category of HP all-in-one printers/scanners (despite open source drivers are available) -> plug in the all-in-one printer/scanner 2. try to do anything with it 3. no chance Expected Results: using the hpoj low level drivers the HP all-in-one Office-Jet printers/scanners would work Additional info:
I hear you. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64172 ***