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Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

[SOLVED] foomatic-rip-hplip and HP laserjet M1212nf MFP printer

I'm trying to install and configure the drivers for the HP laserjet M1212nf MFP printer to work with CUPS over a wired network using the hplip utilities.

I've installed and set up the printer drivers etc using hp-setup and the printer is appearing in the CUPS interface. The problem is that when trying to print a test page
from the cups interface, I'm receiving the message "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip-hplip failed" 

Has anyone had any experience with this error?  what needs to be done to fix this?  this is semi-important as I need my printer for work and school.

SOLVED:  okay, so I found several solutions that combined seem to have solved my problems.
1.) remove the printer from cups
2.) instead of using 'hp-setup -i <printer-ip> just use hp-setup -i.
3.) have Hal, Dbus, and Avahi up and running (probably my biggest problem, I didn't have hal or avahi installed, and I didn't have dbus running)
4.) unpause printer
5.) pray
6.) print test page.

these steps worked for me (not necessarily in the above order...)

Last edited by Cyrusm (2011-02-14 03:52:43)

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daashali

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Registered: 2011-10-01

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] foomatic-rip-hplip and HP laserjet M1212nf MFP printer

I have problem with my M1212nf MFP.
I can't even setup my printer and I get
hp-setup[20577]: debug: Restarting CUPS...
hp-setup[20577]: debug: Restart CUPS returned: exit=0 output=
hp-setup[20577]: debug: addPrinter('HP_LaserJet_Professional_M1212nf_MFP', 'hp:/net/HP_LaserJet_Professional_M1212nf_MFP?zc=NPI8FD5F0', '', '', 'lsb/usr/HP/hp-laserjet_professional_m1212nf_mfp-hpijs.ppd.gz', '')
hp-setup[20577]: debug: addPrinter() returned (0, Unable to connect to CUPS server)
I'm very frustrated. I'm running all the mentioned daemons but no luck.