Comments on: HP Photosmart C4388 wireless printing/scanning on Ubuntu Linux 7.10

By: Trent T

Trent T — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:23:09 +0000

Thanks Prakash!
I was able to use your instructions to reinstall my HP Photosmart C4480 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.
While this is a USB-only printer, it now works better, scans, AND is detectable to my Win XP laptop.
Keep up the good work!
Trent T

By: David

David — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:58:42 +0000

While it is already out of production, I as considering buying this printer because it’s what’s one the market here in China and ha a lot of good features and linux compatible with hplip at a reasonable price.

Anyway, is it absolutely necessary to use windows to configure the wireless printing first? Wouldn’t it be possible jsut to get the IP from your router, then use that to http int the printer and configure from there? I hope HP wouldn’t have broken that standard here.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:37:07 +0000

I have the C4385 and yes, you can print and scan wirelessly. That thing about having to scan using USB is BS. I did have a problem with the Digital Imaging Monitor on my Windows Vista machine, but works flawlessly on the Ubuntu machine.

Somehow, I don’t think the support team at HP knows anything about networking or wireless for that matter. They were telling me it was a problem with my ISP because it wouldn’t stay connected. What?

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:10:17 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for the information. I’ve been wanting to purchase this all-in-one but I want to confirm that it is possible to scan wirelessly. Your article seems to suggest that it is possible but when I called the HP rep in India, she said the scanning requires the USB connection.
I’m just using a Windows configuration. Not Linux.
If the printer has wireless scanning ability, I’ll almost certainly buy it.
Perhaps you could share your knowledge in this area as you are already and owner (and a techie as well).