[SOLVED] HP LaserJet 1020 Recognized by Ubuntu 7.10, but does not print

[bconverse]

Hi,

I've been trying to read about this problem, but most of the stuff I've found is regarding earlier versions of Ubuntu. Anyways, Ubuntu recognizes my printer fine, but, whenever I try and print something, nothing happens. The job appears to have gone though, as the printer icon appears in the notification area, but no printing. The jobs are backing up too, as I've tried to print a test page a few times, and it adds it as job number 5 or 6, indicating that there are other jobs still in the printer queue. I am puzzled by this whole problem, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[DutyDuty]

I've had a similar problem with my Officejet.

also, bump.

[elmagno]

I installed one of these on Feisty on Friday. At first, it displayed like yours but wouldn't print anything either. I'm away from the machine and the information right now, but I was using a foo...something driver available on the net. It would configure and make, but no printing. I discovered it was not creating some needed directories, even when I ran the install as su. Luckily it has an uninstall with it.

That foo... driver may work for you (it has for a lot of people), though it didn't work for me. Then scouring Google, I found a deb for download in a forum--made by an individual and not in repositories. It worked like a charm. Hope you can find it.

From what I understand HP Imaging can't install this one as it has no onboard firmware in the printer.

[bconverse]

Originally Posted by elmagno I installed one of these on Feisty on Friday. At first, it displayed like yours but wouldn't print anything either. I'm away from the machine and the information right now, but I was using a foo...something driver available on the net. It would configure and make, but no printing. I discovered it was not creating some needed directories, even when I ran the install as su. Luckily it has an uninstall with it. That foo... driver may work for you (it has for a lot of people), though it didn't work for me. Then scouring Google, I found a deb for download in a forum--made by an individual and not in repositories. It worked like a charm. Hope you can find it. From what I understand HP Imaging can't install this one as it has no onboard firmware in the printer.

I think I read something about that, but I haven't had any luck finding anything yet. That driver you said you were using though that didn't work is the one that was automatically set up for me. I am still new to Ubuntu, so I think I need some help installing the new driver (if I can locate it)

[bconverse]

Any suggestions? I really don't want to keep Windows around for printing.. ha.

[bconverse]

bump

[drs305]

I have a HP Laserjet 1000 which had the same problem in gutsy (worked in edgy and feisty). I found that the new Gutsy driver didn't seem to work. The solution for me was to get different drivers, which can be found at:
http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/
which was referenced by this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=583143#4

For the LJ1020, change the applicable line in the instructions to

./getweb 1020

The thread involved more steps but I found that I didn't have to complete them all. You can read the previous posts if the way I did it doesn't work for you.

Good luck.

[bconverse]

Originally Posted by drs305 I have a HP Laserjet 1000 which had the same problmen. I found that the Gutsy driver didn't seem to work. The solution for me can be found at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=583143#4 Change the applicable line in the instructions to ./getweb 1020 The thread involved more steps but I found that I didn't have to complete them all. You can read the previous posts if the way I did it doesn't work for you. Good luck.

Great, thanks! I am having some trouble though. When I get up to the 'make' step i get his:

#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cc -O2 -Wall -o foo2zjs foo2zjs.o jbig.o jbig_tab.o
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file foo2zjs: Is a directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [foo2zjs] Error 1
brandon@brandon-desktop:~/foo2zjs$ sudo ./getweb 1020
sihp1020.img

however, if i put in the ./getweb 1020
i then get this...

(c) Copyright Hewlett-Packard 2005

and then with 'make install'

#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cc -O2 -Wall -o foo2zjs foo2zjs.o jbig.o jbig_tab.o
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file foo2zjs: Is a directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [foo2zjs] Error 1

I installed the hotplugs, and CUPS as well, but the printer still does not work

Is it not installing correctly?

[drs305]

When I ran the script exactly as it was posted it ran perfectly.

Did you cut & paste each line to prevent mistakes.It is possible I have a typo in my post so I'd try to use the same steps but off the original post. You shouldn't get any errors.

And I'm not surprised that your's didn't work - with the foo2zjs errors you wouldn't get the right drivers, which is why we were having problems in the first place.

I'll try to analyze your output but I'm pretty new at this stuff and hopefully someone else will chime in.


Added: The link references aren't that clear as to where to start.

Here are the notes I took and the commands I followed (change 1000 to 1020). Make sure when you cd/ you are going to the location of the foo2zjs folder. In my case, I was at the ~/ prompt when I began running the commands in terminal. You want to be inside the foo2zjs directory when you run the MAKE command.

		sudo apt-get install build-essential
		wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz
		tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
		cd /home/<yournamehere>/foo2zjs
		make 
		./getweb 1000
		sudo make install
		sudo make install-hotplug
		sudo make cups

Remainder wasn't necessary for me and I selected the recommended printer from the gutsy printer install and everything worked. There were 3 choices, a recommended and two others. Even though the recommended hadn't worked before, that is the one I selected and which worked this time.

This is the part of the script I didn't have to get to. If you have to go further, substitute 1020 for 1000

gksudo gedit /etc/hotplug/usb/hplj1000

# Set $DEV to, e.g. /dev/usb/lp0, to force the device you want
# Else, leave it null to automatically detect the device
#
DEV=/dev/usb/lp0
#DEV= ""

	sudo gnome-cups-manager

[bconverse]

Ok, so I ran it again, and this time everything worked. Not sure why it didn't the first time around, I copied and pasted. But, now, when I use the gutsy printer setup, I also get the recommended foo driver, plus the three new ones. However, still no dice. I guess I'll try the other three new drivers it installed? See what happens.