HPLIP & hp-toolbox

zba78 · 2005-11-12 13:44:29

installed hplip this morning as instructed by pacman -Syu

Printing works perfectly as before but I can't get hp-toolbox to load.

Everytime I start it up it says: screenshot

But the printer is definatly installed (because it works), even /usr/share/hplip/probe says

 HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.9.6)
 Device Detection (Probe) Utility ver. 1.3

 Copyright (c) 2003-5 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
 This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
 This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
 under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

   Device URI                                  Model                            
   ------------------------------------------  ---------------                  
   hp:/usb/Deskjet_6500?serial=MY48H3Q1P8040K  HP Deskjet_6500

If I go to http://localhost:631/ the printer is listed there and I can print a test page too.

Any ideas? thanks

JGC · 2005-11-12 17:45:38

Did you add the printer by USB port, or did you add it by the hp:/ backend? Also, after installing hplip and starting it, you need to restart cups for new backend configuration.

zba78 · 2005-11-13 01:26:54

Thank a lot.

I did indeed add the printer via USB port. changed it to hp:/ backend and all wrks fine.

Thanks again

postlogic · 2005-11-13 16:58:02

Is there any way to change the hp:/ device uri? I've got it connected to my router, and it says hp:/ no_device_found. The former uri was lpd://192.168.0.1/lp

JGC · 2005-11-13 20:11:00

You don't need the hp:/ backend when printing via a printserver, you can use whatever backend is supported by that printserver, which is lpr in your case.

mclang · 2005-11-20 14:05:24

I can't get my LaserJet 1020 working. I tried to follow the installation instructions on hp linux printing page, but when I get to the device selection, I see only "hp:/ no_device_found" plus the usual usb stuff.

Does anybody know how I should proceed? Supported printers from hp linux printing say that I should use hplip...

Before trying hplip I used modified "foo2zjs" driver which is suggested on the linuxprinting page. This didn't work well, because every time the printer was started, I had to manually load its firmware, which would be fine for me but not for other members of my family...

johnisevil · 2005-11-20 17:52:09

mclang wrote:

I can't get my LaserJet 1020 working. I tried to follow the installation instructions on hp linux printing page, but when I get to the device selection, I see only "hp:/ no_device_found" plus the usual usb stuff.
Does anybody know how I should proceed? Supported printers from hp linux printing say that I should use hplip...
Before trying hplip I used modified "foo2zjs" driver which is suggested on the linuxprinting page. This didn't work well, because every time the printer was started, I had to manually load its firmware, which would be fine for me but not for other members of my family...

I had this same problem and here's what I did to fix it.

1. Use hp-probe to find out the device URI. For me it was hp:/usb/psc_1200_series?serial=MY39QF944S1U
2. Edit /etc/cups/printers.conf and change Device URI from hp:/ no_device_found to the device URI that hp-probe gives.
3. Save the file then chmod -w /etc/cups/printers.conf so it doesn't get overwritten when cupsd is started.

mclang · 2005-11-20 20:20:02

OK

Now the printer seems to be alright in cups, but I still get client error when printing e.g test page. This is the same error which comes if I don't manually load the firmware... So after all I propably have to load that - and create some script to do it for other users.

Thank You anyway!

postlogic · 2005-11-22 17:38:59

JGC wrote:

You don't need the hp:/ backend when printing via a printserver, you can use whatever backend is supported by that printserver, which is lpr in your case.

I was thinking more along the lines of getting hp-toolbox working. It doesn't support anything but hp:/ :-|

gasparov · 2006-02-14 13:44:50

Hi,
sorry for digging....

I managed to get my HP LaserJet 1020 working with arch,it works perfectly but I still have the lettersize paper issue,that is I just can print in A4 papersize,there should be foo2jzs patched drivers that are able to print in lettersize but i can't help you here.Probably there are better way to make it works but you know at least it works:)

- Install cups following the wiki
- add a user called "lp" to your system ( you don't need this if you can build the drivers without an lp user on your system,I couldn't)
-wget http://support.ideainformatica.com/hplj … hed.tar.gz
-tar , cd , make and as root make install ( you can't install f there is no lp user,maybe a debian thing)
-as root make install-udev
- powerup your printer,it will make noises twice,the second time is the firmware loading
-pacman -S hplip, start hplip deamon
here's the odd thing,if you don't have hplip you get client-error in cups
-restart cups --->DO THIS
-add your printer in cups using hp://whatever as device uri,chose laserjet 1020 foo2js drivers,configure printer and chose A4 as papersize then try to print...it will

When you restart your system the printer will fail to print if you don't have hplip running. So if your printer prints with hplip but you don't want to start it at boot just modify your printer again and chose usb://something as your device uri and it will work.

napoleon · 2006-03-18 22:05:47

JGC wrote:

Did you add the printer by USB port, or did you add it by the hp:/ backend? Also, after installing hplip and starting it, you need to restart cups for new backend configuration.

what is the command for installing a printer via hp:/ backend?

Arch Linux

#1 2005-11-12 13:44:29

HPLIP & hp-toolbox

#2 2005-11-12 17:45:38

Re: HPLIP & hp-toolbox

#3 2005-11-13 01:26:54

Re: HPLIP & hp-toolbox

#4 2005-11-13 16:58:02

Re: HPLIP & hp-toolbox

#5 2005-11-13 20:11:00

Re: HPLIP & hp-toolbox

#6 2005-11-20 14:05:24

Re: HPLIP & hp-toolbox

#7 2005-11-20 17:52:09

Re: HPLIP & hp-toolbox

#8 2005-11-20 20:20:02

Re: HPLIP & hp-toolbox

#9 2005-11-22 17:38:59

Re: HPLIP & hp-toolbox

#10 2006-02-14 13:44:50

Re: HPLIP & hp-toolbox

#11 2006-03-18 22:05:47

Re: HPLIP & hp-toolbox

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