Required Steps:
Patches may only be applied to the tarball version of the HPLIP software (not an RPM, DEB, TGZ, or other pre-build package).
How to apply a patch:
$ cd hplip-<version> $ patch -p1 < hplip-<version>.patch $ ./configure --prefix=/usr $ make clean $ make $ su (or use 'sudo make install') # make install (as root)