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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

HPLIP drivers don't work any more

I am the not-so-proud owner of an HP Deskjet D1430 printer. I'm looking to print some rather important documents with it; however, the latest HPLIP D1400-series driver seems not to work at all.

It goes like this: I open up system-config-printer (because the latest version of CUPS doesn't have the web interface any more), add a printer, specify the driver (D1400 Series CUPS + HPIJS), click Forward and Okay several times, try to print a test page... Printer clunks away for about half a minute, then just sits there with its power light flashing.

(Also, is it just me or is there no way to cancel print jobs in system-config-printer? WTH?)

Anyway... This is the only USB printer I have, and I'm kind of at my wits end. How do I get it working?

azleifel

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Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 486

Re: HPLIP drivers don't work any more

I am the not-so-proud owner of an HP Deskjet D1430 printer. I'm looking to print some rather important documents with it; however, the latest HPLIP D1400-series driver seems not to work at all.

It goes like this: I open up system-config-printer (because the latest version of CUPS doesn't have the web interface any more)

There have been recent posts about problems with cups, caused by either mixed stable/testing repos or locale issues.  I don't know the answer here but the latest Arch version of cups (1.3.8) still has the web interface here and I can still print with my HP Photosmart D6160 usb printer.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: HPLIP drivers don't work any more

Ah, there's my problem... I couldn't get my wifi working without using the Testing repo. Phooey.

KimTjik

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-08-22

Posts: 715

Re: HPLIP drivers don't work any more

I'm as curious as azleifel, do you mean that the web interface is no more in the coming 1.4 release?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: HPLIP drivers don't work any more

Grr. There is something definitely wrong with this version of CUPS. I type "localhost:631" into my browser's location bar, I hit enter... I get a blank page.

WTF? I think I'll file a bug report.

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2008-07-29 00:53:18)