Wireless printing with HP Photosmart C4580

C4580 Wireless printer setup

I recently bought an HP Photosmart C4580 All-in-one printer, encouraged by HP's level of support for open source.

First step was to download and install the latest HPLIP drivers from http://hplipopensource.com  then run hp-setup to install the printer. It worked perfectly connected over USB, but I really wanted wireless to work. No joy. hp-setup wouldn't see the printer to set up wirelessly.

Finally at about 10:30 on a Saturday night I went onto the hp website and registered my problem, thinking if I got a response in the next two weeks I'd be in good shape. Next morning a reply was waiting for me. And even better, it worked! the C4580 now prints wirelessly - brilliant bit of kit. See here: https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/82615

In essence, the C4580 isn't officially supported over wireless, though I confess I'm a bit confused as I've found other posts on the web that say it is. To allow hp-setup to configure it you need to change the wireless support setting in the config for the driver..

> sudo gedit /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat

Then search for the section [photosmart_c4500_series]
in that section, change wifi-config=0 to wifi-config=1

re-run hp-setup and this time the printer will be found when you select wireless setup

Haven't mastered the scanner over wireless yet, but stay tuned