hplip status messages - turn off?

[bkochis]

I am using FC8 with a HP J6480 all-in-one printer. I am trying to determine how to disable the status messages from the printer that have a tan background color.

I have installed the printer with HPLIP without network support and the printer is sitting on the same desk. Do I really need all of the popup messages telling me that a print job or scan job has started? (Note implied sarcasm).

Also, if you dislike these messages also please add your 2 cents. Maybe someone at HP will get the idea to allow us to disable these messages......

Bob

[stoat]

Originally Posted by bkochis

Also, if you dislike these messages also please add your 2 cents.

Hello bkochis,

I am not a printer or printing expert. I never had to become one because my printers have always "just worked" either in Windows or Linux. But I did want to add here that for the printer connected to this computer I'm in front of at the moment (HP Deskjet 3820), I didn't install hplip this time around. I only installed hpijs, and the printer configured fine and still works normally. I also get no pop-ups such as you described. About anything. It once again just works. In the past, I have installed the hplip package, and the hpijs package came with it as a dependency. It's a nice little GUI for adding and configuring a printer. But at least for me here, that hplip package is not required for me to add, configure, and print.

Now I'm not suggesting that you do anything there. I read somewhere that hplip supports more than a thousand HP models. Maybe yours needs hplip or doesn't need hpijs. This was just FYI (the 2 cents you were talking about).

P.S.: I just double-checked my installed packages. hpijs is installed. hplip and hplip-gui are not installed.

[JohnVV]

that is odd my HP deskjet 960c is using hplip since the last reinstall of fedora 7 - now 8 .I was using just HPijs on fedora 4,5,6,7 then hplip f 7 and 8 .

The only message i get is the little printer icon in the upper right bar .

The only tan background i get is when i use admin ( http://localhost:631/ ) to KILL a job ,or set up the printer .Also the printer is NOT using usb but is using "hp:/par/DESKJET_960C?device=/dev/parport0" .