HP Laserjet P1102w Setup

[BreezyCricket]

Try as I may I have been unable to get my printer to work in LinuxMint 12 and I know there is nothing wrong with it because it works with no problems in Ubuntu.

Can anyone tell me what packages I should make sure are installed to correct this problem.

Many Thanks.

[AlbertP]

Please install the kernel updates from Synaptic Package Manager: Status > Installed (upgradeable) at the left, mark linux-headers (twice) and linux-image for upgrading and click apply at the top.

[nomko]

What you also can do is trying to install the latest HPLIP driver from this website: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html.

Before installing the latest HPLIP driver, make sure you followed the instruction given on this page: http://hplipopensource.com/node/188

There's a special section for Linux Mint: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/linuxmint.html

[AlbertP]

You shouldn't need to upgrade hplip; it's supported from version 3.10.4 on, that is in Mint 10 or later.

I think just the kernel upgrade will also make it working.

[nomko]

You shouldn't need to upgrade hplip; it's supported from version 3.10.4 on, that is in Mint 10 or later.

I think just the kernel upgrade will also make it working.

My experience is when upgrading the HPLIP driver, most of the issues will be solved.

The current version of HPLIP (acc. to their website) is version 3.12.4. The version you mention is out-dated.

It can never harm upgrading your HPLIP driver. I always upgrade my HPLIP driver and never had any issues or problems afterwards.

[AlbertP]

@ nomko: You know that the 3.0.0-12 kernel has a bug with USB printers not being detected? That's why I suggested to install the kernel updates.
Indeed, updating hplip can't harm.

[nomko]

@ nomko: You know that the 3.0.0-12 kernel has a bug with USB printers not being detected? That's why I suggested to install the kernel updates.
Indeed, updating hplip can't harm.

Every version has some bugs. Otherwise there would only a100% bug free version 1.0 and no new versions.

[mis1502]

Problem is cups 1.5, not kernel, hplip, foo2zjs... USB-printers needs usblp module, cups 1.5 needs usblp module off. Then you have to load usblp on system start and remove it when printer has been found.
My solution is based on (and it works):
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS

Edit:
In Ubuntu you have probably cups 1.4.

[AlbertP]

@mis1502: Ubuntu has cups 1.5.0-2 but I've never seen this problem on any Mint/Ubuntu forums so I think it's either specific to Arch's CUPS or already fixed by Ubuntu or Debian.

[mis1502]

@mis1502: Ubuntu has cups 1.5.0-2 but I've never seen this problem on any Mint/Ubuntu forums so I think it's either specific to Arch's CUPS or already fixed by Ubuntu or Debian.

No, it's not specific to Arch's CUPS. I don't have Arch Linux, I have Linux Mint 12 and check it on Ubuntus with cups 1.5. The same errors, not fixed. On Ubuntu with cups 1.4 everything is fine. And it's CUPS 1.5 - usblp module problem. Linux needs usblp to correctly add printer, CUPS gaves errors when usblp is loaded. You can proper add printer to cups, but for example when you restart with printer detached, and attached it after login in to system (and maybe nastily try print before that ), you will got hp failed error.

[mank_in]

My experience :
I am try printing with LM12 Main edition with HP laserjet 1006
Solution for me is :

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sudo apt-get install hplip-gui

hplip-gui base on qt(KDE ) , but working fine in MATE.

[AlbertP]

No, it's not specific to Arch's CUPS. I don't have Arch Linux, I have Linux Mint 12 and check it on Ubuntus with cups 1.5. The same errors, not fixed. On Ubuntu with cups 1.4 everything is fine. And it's CUPS 1.5 - usblp module problem. Linux needs usblp to correctly add printer, CUPS gaves errors when usblp is loaded. You can proper add printer to cups, but for example when you restart with printer detached, and attached it after login in to system (and maybe nastily try print before that ), you will got hp failed error.

The kernel's usblp has some problems and this is fixed by installing kernel updates from Synaptic Package Manager as I said. Then cups is working well.

[mis1502]

I'm doing updates regularly. And this doesn't give any improvement. Printers are working 4-5 days and after that I'm getting phone, that some printer doesn't work. Mostly it's "hp failed".

* hplip-gui it's only GUI. It doesn't really give anything beside interface.

[AlbertP]

The kernel is not included in the updates by default. You have to upgrade linux-headers and linux-image from Synaptic Package Manager to fix USB printing (for some printers).

[mis1502]

I know that. I'm doing full upgrade. It doesn't give nothing.

[AlbertP]

@mis1502: In fact you're hijacking BreezyCricket's topic about his HP Laserjet P1102w now. If cups 1.5 does not work for you (lots of Mint 12 users don't have problems at all with HP printing) then you could file a bug at CUPS or open a new topic about your cups 1.5 problems.

[jputte]

Dear,

I am sorry to have limited knowledge about linux.
Using Linux Mint 13 Mate, and tried to install the HP Laserjet P1102w.
First USB connection: automatically recognised the printer and automatically installed the driver. Checking the configuration centre, the printer was successfully installed, whaw, I thought this was fantastic...
But then, could not print anything and arrived on this forum.
- upgraded the kernel as mentioned above
- uninstalled the driver in the configuration centre
- installed hplip-gui
- shutdown and restart

Now, no way to install the driver any more, the printer is not recognised. Tried in hplip-gui, no printer is showing up, it looks like its dead or simply not there...

As the explanation above is for Mint 12, I am reluctant to go into installing an later version of hplip, as the Synaptic has installed a rather recent version 3.12.2 and I am afraid that I could further make things worse going through this complex procedure. I have no idea how to undo the kernel update as well. Seems like that was not a great idea.

I would be most grateful if anyone could give me some idea what to do.
many thanks,
Jan.

[AlbertP]

Installing a newer hplip version after removing the old one won't harm.

Please try running system-config-printer. When pressing Add, does it show your printer on the left when connected via USB? If not, please run lsusb in terminal and post the output.

[jputte]

Thanks so much Albert!

I am definitely a step further: I got this in terminal:
jan@jan-Studio-1735 ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 03f0:102a Hewlett-Packard
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05ca:18a1 Ricoh Co., Ltd

I introduced 002:004 in the hplip-gui manual usb installation option which requires bbb:ddd and it recognised the P1102w.
Then I got this error message pop-up:

The printer you are trying to setup requires a binary driver plug-in and it failed to install.
Please check your internet connection and try again.
Visit http://hplipopensource.com for more infomation.

my interconnection is working well, checked the link but cant find the answer there...
hope I am almost there, feels like it
Jan.

[AlbertP]

You can run sudo hp-plugin in terminal to install the plugin. Then I think it should work normally.