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    Re: HOWTO: Install HP Printers for Beginners

    Hope I'm not covering old ground. I've installed my 7410 w/ hplip 3 times now. each time the install goes well, every thing looks good, and I print a test page. BUT once I shut down or reboot no more printing. it says it is printing but nothing happens. other than that I'm really liking fiesty a lot. I'm an old newbie so you will have to keep it simple for me. Thank you.
    Last edited by outhouse; April 30th, 2007 at 07:47 PM.

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    Re: HOWTO: Install HP Printers for Beginners

    Can you run in a terminal:

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    sudo /etc/init.d/hplip restart
    and

    Code:
    sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
    and try printing again what happens?

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    Re: HOWTO: Install HP Printers for Beginners

    yo, kalosaurusrex, I had forgotten about the idea we had to make a 3rd party project sub-forum for HPLIP, it was so long ago, and I did send 2 PM's to ubuntu-geek, but he never responded...maybe if you try he'll listen to you!

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    Re: HOWTO: Install HP Printers for Beginners

    Thank you for your prompt reply. I ran both strings, one at a time, got OK's on every thing but still can't print. As near as I can tell, in my ignorance, every thing looks good. printer shows up in tool box, icon shows up in tool bar w/ print job #, etc. I just realized I don't know how to cut & paste into an email in Ubuntu yet, so I can't show terminal. sorry about that. I'm learning as fast as my poor old brain can go.

    Thanks again.

    jah43@mymachine:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/hplip restart

    Password:
    Stopping hpiod: [ OK ]
    Stopping hpssd: [ OK ]
    Starting hpiod: [ OK ]
    Starting hpssd: [ OK ]
    jah43@mymachine:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
    * Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ OK ]
    jah43@mymachine:~$
    Last edited by outhouse; May 2nd, 2007 at 06:32 AM.

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    Re: HOWTO: Install HP Printers for Beginners

    Quote Originally Posted by outhouse View Post
    Thank you for your prompt reply. I ran both strings, one at a time, got OK's on every thing but still can't print. As near as I can tell, in my ignorance, every thing looks good. printer shows up in tool box, icon shows up in tool bar w/ print job #, etc. I just realized I don't know how to cut & paste into an email in Ubuntu yet, so I can't show terminal. sorry about that. I'm learning as fast as my poor old brain can go.

    Thanks again.
    No need to 'cut and paste'. Highlight the text you want to copy, go to where you want it to be copied to, and center click. The highlighted text will copy over. Doesn't matter how much text. I've copied some pretty long docs that way!

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    Re: HOWTO: Install HP Printers for Beginners

    Thank you, Steven8,

    That was really one of those slap your forehead things. I don't know how long it would have taken me to figure that out

    Thanks a lot

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    Re: HOWTO: Install HP Printers for Beginners

    You're welcome.

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    Re: HOWTO: Install HP Printers for Beginners

    waah what seems to be the problem with my installation? i've tried it a second time but still the error remains. it says here:

    Code:
    DEPENDENCY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    ----------------------------------
    Running 'sudo apt-get install --yes --force-yes xsane'
    Please wait, this may take several minutes...
    warning: A previous install of HPLIP is installed and/or running.
    Running 'sudo /etc/init.d/hplip stop'
    Please wait, this may take several minutes...
    
    Running 'sudo apt-get remove --yes --force-yes hplip hpijs'
    Please wait, this may take several minutes...
    error: HPLIP removal failed. The previous install may have been installed using a tarball or this installer.
    error: Continuing to run installer - this installation should overwrite the previous one.
    warning: An optional dependency 'xsane' is still missing.
    warning: Some features may not function as expected.
    
    
    BUILD AND INSTALL
    -----------------
    
    Running './configure --enable-network-build --disable-pp-build --enable-fax-build --enable-gui-build --enable-scan-build --prefix=/usr'
    Please wait, this may take several minutes...
    
    Command completed successfully.
    
    Running 'make clean'
    Please wait, this may take several minutes...
    
    Command completed successfully.
    
    Running 'make'
    Please wait, this may take several minutes...
    
    error: 'make' command failed with status code 2
    jillian@jillian-desktop:~
    $

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    Re: HOWTO: Install HP Printers for Beginners

    When installing HPLIP, understanding that I have a network (home network) printer (DeskJet F4100), where do I obtain the network setting that are necessary to complete the HPLIP installation? Where on the Windows XP machine do I find the IP address or whatever this installation needs?


    Quote Originally Posted by kalosaurusrex View Post
    Actually you will not want to install hpoj and hplip together as they will cause conflicts. We have a good step by step for ubuntu on our website.

    http://hplip.sourceforge.net

    hpoj is very old and does not have any support for any products for the last 2 years as well as no fax support or status support, *insert long list here*,etc.

    The best thing to do is NOT install hpoj and work with hplip as it as extended support and functionality.

    I've tested over 500 hp printers with HPLIP and have tested with ubuntu very frequently. The step by step on our website is straight forward and I should hope will help users install and configure their printer easily. As well I'm open to any suggestions on making our instructions easier and more straight forward so feel free to give me ideas!

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    Re: HOWTO: Install HP Printers for Beginners

    It worked great for me. As a matter of fact, since first starting this Ubuntu "experience" this is one of the few things that actually worked as advertised. Thanks to everyone for this, me and my printer (HP5180) are getting along much better now.....

    Scott....

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