hp-probe(1)

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version 3.24.4 · 2 versions
, in ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this is hp-probe — the Printer Discovery Utility 💅 and yes bestie, it lives in the User Manuals section of the manual, section 1, we love a classic 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Basically? It discovers all the printers that HPLIP supports — and it does that over USB, parallel, and network connections. That's the whole vibe. Go find the printers. 🦋

🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

hp-probe [OPTIONS]

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -b<bus>, --bus=<bus> — pick which bus to probe, bestie. Your choices for <bus> are: cups, usb*, net, bt, fw, par. the usb one has the star so it's the default ✨ (also heads up: bt and fw are not supported in this release, so don't come for me 😭)
  • -t<ttl>, --ttl=<ttl> — sets the Time to Live (TTL). default is 4 💅
  • -o<timeout in secs.>, --timeout=<timeout is secs.> — sets the timeout, in seconds.
  • -e<filter list>, --filter=<filter list> — filter by functionality, slay. <filter list> is a comma separated list of one or more of: scan, pcard, fax, copy, or none*. and the star on none means none is the default 🎀
  • -s<search re>, --search=<search re> — search. <search re> has to be a valid regular expression (and no, it's not case sensitive, so chill 🍓)
  • -m<method>, --method=<method> — the network discovery method. <method> is either slp* or mdns. the star means slp is the default 👑
  • -l<level>, --logging=<level> — set the logging level. <level> can be none, info*, error, warn, debug — and yup, info is the default ⭐
  • -g — run in debug mode. it's literally the same as doing -ldebug 🐛
  • -h, --help — shows this help information. iconic, honestly 🫶

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Find all devices on the network:

hp-probe -bnet

Find all devices on USB that support scanning:

hp-probe -busb -escan

Find all networked devices that contain the name lnx and that support photo cards or scanning:

hp-probe -bnet -slnx -escan,pcard

Find all devices that have queues installed in CUPS:

hp-probe -bcups

Find all devices on the USB bus:

hp-probe

👑 AUTHOR 👑

HPLIP (HP Linux Imaging and Printing) is an HP developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser based printers in Linux. periodt 💜

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

The HPLIP Launchpad.net site https://launchpad.net/hplip is there for you to get help, report bugs, make suggestions, discuss the HPLIP project, or otherwise contact the HPLIP Team. go say hi, they don't bite 🫶

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, L.P.

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See the COPYING file for more details. no cap, read the COPYING file bestie 😭

and that's the whole page!! mwah 💋 this one came from the Linux manual set, version 4.1, filed under hp-probe(1) — go discover some printers, you absolute main character 🌟💅🦋

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