Hewlett-Packard has released drivers for over 30 of their inkjet
printers. The drivers themselves are provided under a mixture of
licenses, ranging from GPL for GNU-licensed Ghostscript additions,
the GNU Lesser GPL (LGPL) for the glue code, and a BSD license with
an “HP product only” clause for the HP Inkjet Server software.
The drivers are currently available as binary RPM’s as well as a
source tarball.
Supported printers for this release include:
- e-Series: e-20 Basic Printing Support
- DeskJet 600C Series: 600C, 660C, 670/672C, 670TV, 680/682C
Basic Printing Support - DJ 600C Series Photo: 610/612C, 640/648C,
690/692/693/694/695/697C - DeskJet 630C Series: 630/632C Basic Printing Support
- DeskJet 800C Series: 810/812C, 830/832C, 840/842C, 880/882C,
895C - DeskJet 900C Series: 900c, 930/932C, 950/952C, 970C Basic
Printing Support
From the project page:
“HP has developed solutions for printing with Deskjet inkjet
printers in Linux. The drivers and support resources for the HP
Linux Inkjet Driver Project are available on this site.”
“The HP driver provides basic printing support for more than 30
Deskjet printer models. Basic printing support means very good
print quality and will generally work in two print modes plain
paper normal, and photo paper best.”
“The HP Linux Inkjet Driver Project is a add-on to the GNU
Ghostscript application. This driver is based on the Hewlett
Packard Appliance Printing Development Kit (APDK) for deskjet
printers.”