HOWTO: Install HP Printers for Beginners

[TheThinker]

For those of you using Gutsy and found that the Printer setup Window does not seem to get the printer working (even though it detects it), try this. Type and enter in the terminal:

sudo aa-complain cupsd


I found this worked for my HP 720C Deskjet right away. Just a Gutsy bug, I guess. I don't know if it'll work for wireless-printer setups but it may be worth a try.

P.S. Thanks to AKoine and others for posting similar suggestions!

[john262]

Gutsy has reduced my HPDeskjet 712C to a paperweight.
I had it printing ok in feisty, but now it shows up on hplip's (admittedly very short) "unsupported" list.
When I go to the hpoj site, however, it's on the "works perfectly" list.
Following the advice in this thread of not having hpoj and hplip installed together, I added the one and removed the other, and now the system doesn't even detect the printer. I have installed the pnm2ppa.ppd and configured it for 712C instead of 710, but to no avail.
Is there any hope? I really can't afford another printer right now.

I also have a Deskjet 712C and I haven't been able to get it to work either. It's too bad because even though it's old it's a good printer and I want to keep using it. But I have tried all of the suggestions in this thread and it's a no go. And what's more, it worked fine with Fiesty.

So my question is, if it worked OK before why doesn't it work now? I thought that these upgrades were supposed to be improvements but this one seems more like a regression.

BTW, for what it's worth I just set up a dual boot system with OpenSuse 10.3 and I was able to print right out of the box with OpenSuse.

[Tulsapoke]

Type and enter in the terminal:

sudo aa-complain cupsd

This fixed my 712c on the parallel port. Hopefully this fix isn't some command I have to run any time I print though... I will be testing. But for now I am fixed.

Thanks.

[hydeychan]

I have come up with a pretty complete list on how to correctly install an HP printer (I think) for beginners, since so many people seem to have trouble with this. I have also provided a very basic scanner start up guide.

I'm a complete newbie to linux (I just installed it today), and I just want to thank you for posting this. It made it SO easy for me to configure my printer!

You rock!

~hydeychan

[Darrious]

Type and enter in the terminal:

sudo aa-complain cupsd

This fixed my 712c on the parallel port. Hopefully this fix isn't some command I have to run any time I print though... I will be testing. But for now I am fixed.

Thanks.

For those of you using Gutsy and found that the Printer setup Window does not seem to get the printer working (even though it detects it), try this. Type and enter in the terminal:

sudo aa-complain cupsd


I found this worked for my HP 720C Deskjet right away. Just a Gutsy bug, I guess. I don't know if it'll work for wireless-printer setups but it may be worth a try.

P.S. Thanks to AKoine and others for posting similar suggestions!

You both are probably right, but I'm trying to get y HP DeskJet 722c working and what am I supposed to do after typing

 sudo aa-complain cupsd

When I do that it does this

darrious@ubuntu:~$ sudo aa-complain cupsd
Setting /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd to complain mode.
darrious@ubuntu:~$

Now what?

P.S. I'm running Gutsy Gibbon 7.10
The printer worked fine in Edgy, but I just recently downloaded Gutsy, and that has been having problems.

[PatricioLearner]

Everything looks ok (hp4215 installed) but when I print nothing happens.
I think output of hp-check -r can be the key. here is part of it. I should also mention that the hp4215 scanner does work!
Patricio

Initializing. Please wait...
warning: Invalid ppd_dir value: /usr/share/ppd/hpijs/HP
warning: Invalid drv_dir value: /usr/share/cups/drv/hp/

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| SYSTEM INFO |
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Basic system information:
Linux patricio-desktop 2.6.24-18-generic #1 SMP Wed May 28 20:27:26 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Distribution:
ubuntu 8.04

HPOJ running?
No, HPOJ is not running (OK).

Checking Python version...
OK, version 2.5.2 installed

Checking PyQt version...
OK, version 3.17 installed.

Checking SIP version...
error: SIP not installed or version not found.

Checking for CUPS...
Status: scheduler is running
Version: 1.3.7
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| SANE CONFIGURATION |
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'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.conf'...
OK, found. SANE backend 'hpaio' is properly set up.

Checking output of 'scanimage -L'...
device `hpaio:/usb/officejet_4200_series?serial=CN5CJGI3BT' is a Hewlett-Packard officejet_4200_series all-in-one
device `avision:libusb:001:002' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5300C flatbed scanner
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[11hjpphty76lkjj]

Please run hp-check -t and post the entire output.

Thanks!

A

[PatricioLearner]

Here it the complete output of hp-check -r
Maybe it helps the troubleshoot.
thanks!

[PatricioLearner]

Here it is

[yengamatic]

Hi, I'm having some trouble installing the lastest version of HPLIP (2.8.7).

Basically it cannot install python2.5-dev package, because of its version. I have python2.5 installed, but version is 2.5.2-2ubuntu5, and python2.5-dev spects version 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1. I know i could force the earlier version (ubuntu4.1), but from what i've seen in synaptic menu i should first uninstall current version and reinstall earlier one. Having maaaaaany packages already installed that depend on it, it's not an option... How can i install the requiered package?

Thanks.