Comment 4 for bug 67892

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote : Re: HPLIP failed to start PyQt/Qt missing

Current HPLIP (1.6.9 and later) allows most tools to be used in text mode ('-n' option), for faxing one can use for example

hp-sendfax -n -p <fax queue> -f <fax number> <files>

So one can for example pre-configure a GNOME/GTK Fax GUI to use this command line. This could be done by printerdrake when setting up a fax queue.

One could also add ink level check and nozzle cleaning functions to printerdrake, which simply call the appropriate command line tools of HPLIP.

See

https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/printerdrake
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrinterDrake