How to get HP 1020 work on Ubuntu?

[pmilin@ptt.yu]

After unsuccessfully trying to get my HP 1020 work under linux I must conclude that none of the proposed "solutions" work:
a) I did HPLIP Installation, but 'apt-get install libsnmp5-dev' was not possible, because of unresolvable dependencies
b) I tried HPLIP from Ubuntu repositories, but that wasn't successful too for unknown reasons
c) HP Laserjet 1020 driver for Linux with 'foo2zjs' upgraded driver - unsuccessful! Reasons: first, 'make install-hotplug' cannot be done and that has been explained somewhere here, but after some hand-job, it was a success, yet printing is not working. Moreover, there are no HP 1000 or 1005 drivers.

Can anyone help with this matter?!?

I am new with Linux/Ubuntu, and getting to be seriosly frustrated. At least some things are much easier under MS Windows.

Sincerely, pmilin

[tigrez]

Try this:

cat /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1005.dl > /dev/usb/lp0

It upload the firmware to work in my 1005. I don't know if it is the same for 1020... Anyway, this the only thing that CUPS don't do at startup...

[cagljevic]

i too am in the very same boat. i have scoured all the google results on "linux hp 1020" and have followed all of these suggestions. here is my current status:

the firmware is loaded, although i must do it manually each time. the only usable drivers that recognize the printer so far that i know are the hp laserjet 1000 and laserjet 1005. when i attempt to print from any source (open office, gedit, firefox, etc) i get blurred text. i noticed in some spot that also attempted to address this issue that text is printed clearly only if a4 page size is selected. guess what, i have done that and the output is still blurred. i am completely stumped. i feel i am close to getting it working since the printer does print something, its just useless garbage output though...

-mark

[Johnp_g]

Hi,

I've just migrated over to Ubuntu (from all manner of Linuxes - lastly Debian sarge) and also recently got an HP1020.

It was a hassle to get it to work under Sarge, but last night I got it going under Breezy.

You need to get the udev patched version of foo2zjs at:-

http://support.ideainformatica.com/h...patched.tar.gz

I'm not sure if you need the "normal" foo2zjs package already installed (my system had it there anyway).

Once you untar the archive (tar zxvf foo2zjs-patched.tar.gz) you need to cd into the new foo2zjs directory and

make
sudo make install

this will install the drivers and firmware.

Next edit the file (in the foo2zjs directory you're currently in) called 58-foo2zjs.rules (or some such) to correct a bug (it took me ages to work out why udev wouldn't upload the firmware)

look for the entry for the 1020 - specifically change

SYSFS{idProduct}=="2B17"

to

SYSFS{idProduct}=="2b17"

(the typo prevents udev from spotting the printer being plugged in!)

now install the udev scripts/rules :-

sudo make install-udev

I don't know if you need to restart udev (I messed about so much last night I got lost) but it can't hurt (?)

sudo udevstart

When you power cycle the printer you should hear it whirring as it powers, then whirring again as the new firmware is uploaded.

To check the firmware is in look at /var/log/messages - -there should be some note of successful upload of firmware.

Now you need to restart cupsys

sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

Next use the normal gnome printer config tool to install the HP1020 - you should see the option to use the correct HP1020 foo2zjs driver.

(btw you might need to install the "build-essential" package - and "make" - to compile the foo2zjs package)


Hope this helps someone!

I also found it necessary to install "cupsys-bsd" to get the cups versions of "lpr lpq" etc, and also :-

sudo lpoptions -o cpi-12 -o lpi=7 -o page-left=36 -o page-right=36 -o page-top=36 -o page-bottom=36

to make plain (lpr) text fit nicely on the page.

Cheers,

John

[Johnp_g]

Of course - I've just noticed this thread is in "Hoary" & I don't know if Hoary uses udev (having just installed Breezy as my first taste of Ubuntu).

If is doesn't you might like to upgrade to Breezy first?

John

[Pointwood]

That made it print (I'm using Kubuntu with KDE 3.5beta2), but the output was completely fuzzy and for a few moments felt really unhappy again
However, changing the paper size from letter to A4 (which is what we uses here in Europe ), fixed that

Thanks a lot for the explanation!

[Johnp_g]

Yes, I'd seen rubbish printed with the wrong paper size selected while I was using Debian. When I got it working with Ubuntu it must have been already set to A4.

Glad I've helped someone!

Cheers

John

[lizardking]

Thnk U to all.
It works for me...

Great ubuntu and great ideainformatica howto..

Thnaks for All everybody

[gasparov]

Originally Posted by Pointwood That made it print (I'm using Kubuntu with KDE 3.5beta2), but the output was completely fuzzy and for a few moments felt really unhappy again However, changing the paper size from letter to A4 (which is what we uses here in Europe ), fixed that Thanks a lot for the explanation!

I've changed the paper size in gnome printing config utilty but :

Nov 21 21:45:12 localhost foo2zjs-wrapper: foo2zjs-wrapper -P -r600x600 -p1 -s7 -m1 -d1 -n1 -I0
Nov 21 21:45:14 localhost foo2zjs-wrapper: gs -sPAPERSIZE=letter -g5100x6600 -r6 00x600 -sDEVICE=pbmraw
Nov 21 21:45:14 localhost foo2zjs-wrapper: foo2zjs -r600x600 -g5100x6600 -p1 -m1  -n1 -d1 -s7  -u 102x102 -l 102x106     -P

How did you change papersize?

[gasparov]

I still don't know what exactly was the problem but it seems it was related to my locale (english)
1)dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1--->chose a4 in my case
2)remove and reinstall printer with gnome utility

these two steps solved the problem