The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing
project (HPLIP) provides a unified single and
multifunction connectivity solution for HP printers
and scanners (in particular, HP all-in-one devices).

The HPLIP version after 2.8.2 (i.e. since 2.8.4)
does all interprocess communication via dbus
and therefore dbus-1-python version 0.80 or greater
is required since version 2.8.4.

The HPLIP version after 2.8.2 (i.e. since 2.8.4)
does no longer build and/or work on openSUSE 10.1
and SLES10/SLED10 because dbus is too old there
so that HPLIP version 2.8.2 is the last version
which we can provide for those distributions.

HPLIP provides unified connectivity for printing,
scanning, sending faxes, photo card access, and
device management and is designed to work with CUPS.

It includes the Ghostscript printer driver HPIJS
for HP printers and a special "hp" CUPS back-end
that provides bidirectional communication with the
device (required for HP printer device management).

It also includes the SANE scanner driver "hpaio"
for HP all-in-one devices. Basic PC send fax
functionality is supported on a number of devices.

The special "hpfax" CUPS back-end is required
to send faxes. Direct uploading (i.e. without
print and scan) of received faxes from the device
to the PC is not supported.

The "hp-toolbox" program is provided for device
management.

The "hp-sendfax" program must be used to send faxes.

The "hp-setup" program can be used to set up
HP all-in-one devices.

The HPLIP project is open source software and
uses GPL-compatible licenses.
For more information, see:

http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/

/usr/share/doc/packages/hplip/index.html