HP DeskJet 870C Toolbox Missing Features...

[Mike McCarty]

I have an HP DeskJet 870Cse which I have used on a Windows
machine, now on my Linux machine. I miss a few features of
the HP Toolbox present on the Windows machine, and wonder
whether they be available. The ones I miss most are
cartridge alignment, head clean, and communication test.

I've used apropos, GNOME help, and Google. Google found some
semi-hits, the best one looks like HPLIP. I used the link
there to http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/, but was unable
to find a distribution specifically for Fedora. The support
I found for Fedora was HPIJS, which I have already installed.
Further searching of sourceforge led to the HPLIP 0.9.7
release in source form.

My questions are:

Is HPLIP the best bet for these functions? If not, what?
If so, does HPLIP support the features I specifically asked about?
If so, is there an rpm for the install on FC2?
If so, may I use yum to do the install? What repository?
If this is not the proper install, then what is? Source?

Thanks very much for your time.

Mike
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