HP OfficeJet 5110
Printer Type
Resolution Works?
HP
OfficeJet 5110 Color
Inkjet
2400x1200 Mostly
Notes
Multi-function device: Printer, scanner, copier, fax. Standard model and "xi" model have different fax page memory sizes and zoom factor ranges for copying.
The best choice for printing is the "hpijs" driver developed by HP.
The best output one gets with HP's HPIJS 1.3 or newer. If you cannot update to HPIJS 1.3 for some reason, you can also use HPIJS 1.2.2 with the patches from Matthias Bunte and Richard Spencer-Smith ("hpijs-rss"). The GIMP-Print driver also works (Model setting: "pcl-900"), but only up to 600 dpi.
Scanning works using the HPOJ low-level driver together with its SANE backend "hpoj".
Copying should just work, it does not need the PC..
PC faxing not yet supported.
To print via USB you NEED to set up this printer with HPOJ or you have to use the modifed USB printer.c kernel module from the HPOJ web site, even if you do not want to scan.
Printer does not support PJL.
Printer supports direct text printing with the `us-ascii' charset.
Refill: 2 cartridges (1 black, 1 color)
No known autodetection methods.
This information has been proofread.
HP's history of cooperation with the free software community may be found on the vendor report card page.
You can participate in the LinuxPrinting.org HP discussion forum here on the web, via NNTP, or by email.
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Driver Information
Recommended driver: hpijs
hpijs
General driver notes: This driver is the first free driver issued by HP for their DeskJet and LaserJet printers. Since version 1.0.1 HP has put it under a BSD-like license without the restriction that it is only allowed to use the driver with HP printers, as it was the case for HPIJS 1.0 and earlier. So this driver is really free software now.
Since version 1.0 the driver uses the new IJS interface to plug in drivers into GhostScript without needing to recompile GhostScript, the driver is provided by an extra executable invoked by GhostScript which gets the raster data from GhostScript via shared memory, which is much faster than piping bitmap output into the standard input of the driver, in addition GhostScript can ask the driver for the capabilities of the printer/driver pair.
The quality of colour printing is much higher than the quality of the other drivers.
The quality on photo papers (in photo mode) is very high, especially for the newer models (beginning from the HP DeskJet 990C) which auto-detect the paper type by a hardware facility and so automatically switch between the normal colour mode and the photo mode. On the HP DeskJet 990C and newer there is also a 1200 dpi high resolution mode available, in which the image is interpolated to 2400x1200 dpi or even 4800x1200 dpi by the hardware, and so it gives excellent photo quality. In the new models 6- and 7-ink printing is also fully automatically handled by the hardware, so it works under free software with this driver and the user does not to switch a driver option according to the cartridges he is using. This driver is the only free one which supports more than 600 dpi on HP inkjet printers.
This driver supports also monochrome (PCL 5) and color (PCL 5c) laser printers with resolutions up to 600 dpi. Most laser printers with 1200 dpi understand usually PCL 6 or PostScript, so use the "pxlmono", "pxlcolor", "lj5gray", or "Postscript" drivers then. For Brother laser printers use the "hl1240"/"hl1250" drivers. Note that Epson's AcuLaser color printer series only emulates the monochrome PCL 5, not PCL 5c. So you have to use Epson's "alc..." drivers to print in color with them.
This driver supports also duplex (double-sided) printing and selection of the paper input tray, if the printer is appropriately equipped.
The driver execution data currently available on this site is for version 1.3.1 (or newer) of HPIJS and IJS 0.33 (available in GNU GhostScript 6.53, AFPL GhostScript 7.04, and ESP GhostScript 7.05.x). It does not necessarily work with older versions of HPIJS and IJS.
To improve the black text output quality for the HP DeskJet 6xx, 8xx, and 9xx printers, apply Matthias Bunte's patch which lets HPIJS use only black ink for black text and not a mix of all four inks. There is no difference in the options and the Foomatic data for the patched and the original HPIJS, so you have to generate your data files on this page, NOT on the "hpijs-rss" page
