HPLIP and faxing

[shmu26]

I saw a couple threads about issues that people are having with setting up HP printers, such as this thread:

Problem with HPLIP

Well particularly when I run sudo hp-setup I can find the printer but then the screen to pick the ppd file the box is yellow. And even when I click browse and find the ppd in the /nix/store path that it starts we off at I cannot change the yellow box telling me to click browse. cups is running, hplip is installed through the system configuration. Not sure what I am missing. This is my first on metal install of nixos so far. Ken

I need the fax printer that HPLIP installs when you use the official HPLIP installer, and AFAIK you don’t get the fax printer if you use workarounds.
I have an old HP Officejet_Pro_6830 that I use for faxing.

I have not yet installed NixOS. I would like to know in advance if HPLIP is likely to be a difficult issue or not, and that is what this post is all about.

[nixinator]

@shmu26

I have not yet installed NixOS. I would like to know in advance if HPLIP is likely to be a difficult issue or not, and that is what this post is all about.

I don’t have this hardware so can’t test it or reproduce it. If i could i would test it for you. I’ve got my other HP scanner working fine however, so you may have a good chance.

Probably why we need a ‘certifed nixos hardware sticker’ , to stick onto peripherals.