Anyone got a HP CP1215 Colour Laserjet printer working?

[Bucky Ball]

Just tying this up ...

As mentioned, I got over to Melbourne, downloaded the latest HPLip and followed the instructions for installing. When I got to the part to unplug and re-plug the printer, I did so, it was picked up straight away, GUI came up telling me this printer needs a separate plug-in, did I want to install it, I agreed, grind grumble work work work whirr and other machine noises then ... good to go. Printer installed, fantastic printer configuration utility from HP for Linux, test page achieved and all sweet and seemingly rock solid when I left a week later.

* Bottom line if you are having problems with the HP CP1215 Colour Laser Jet printer on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 (the updated HPLip is included in later versions):

Download the latest HPLip from here:

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/gethplip.html

... then follow the instructions here:

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web...all/index.html

Follow your nose from there and you should be good to go.

[russelld]

Installing this printer in Linux was an absolutely resounding success!!

Printing in Linux was necessary for me, so I asked the OfficeWorks sales rep (shameless plug ) if it would, and they did a quick "google" at the point of sale terminal and found links to an open source package in Linux that supports this printer.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/

After downloading the package, and decompressing, the "readme" is quite clear, and provides instructions to run the install from the command line. This is straight forward and the application found the distro this machine was running (Ubuntu hardy 8.04b), asked for root access (!). this was bit spooky and but as nothing was mentioned about this aspect on the net so I let it run.

It then checked for packaged installed and then requested to download extra packages which were then installed. The installer then proceeded to start compiling the driver which took about 15-20 mins on this 1.3Ghz celeron,. After it finished compiling, the installer installed the new minted driver and then gave instructions on how to run the gui admin tool which was unnecessary as the gui admin tool was loaded into the menu and desktop!!

After geting the admin tool running, I plugged in the printer USB, the printer was found straight away, and didn't bother to print a test page, I printed a much needed product labels and invoice straight away!! woot!!
Absolutely incredible, thanks HP and thanks devs!

[Bucky Ball]

Better than that you don't need to go to sourceforge to download hplip. It is in the repositories:

System>Admin>Synaptic Package Manager, search for hplip. Even easier.