[SOLVED] HP Envy 5530 Network Printer and Scanner

HarlemSquirrel · 2014-07-31 17:10:12

I was having trouble getting this to work fully over my home LAN despite this HPLIP page that says it is recommended and everything works well. That is why I bought it.

So, I scoured the forums and wiki pages of Arch Linux and was able to get things working, so I wanted to share what worked for me.

1. Install HPLIP.

sudo pacman -S hplip

2. Enable the Avahi daemon.

sudo systemctl enable avahi-daemon.service

3. You may have to add your user to the lp and sys groups. I did this before enabling the Avahi daemon. Replace user with your user name.

sudo gpasswd -a user lp
sudo gpasswd -a user sys

4. Add the printer through the HPLIP software and search using mDNS. I was not able to find the printer on my network with the other options, and this is likely due to the fact that I enabled Avahi last as this was the piece I was missing.

bullotsky · 2014-10-02 17:11:58

This didn't help me at all. There is no explanation of how to add the printer through HPLIP software. It's not in any applications list that I can see and I don't know what the command line is for it or where it would be stored.

If I just go to printers it doesn't show up in the Gnome Shell interface.

Cavsfan · 2015-07-21 20:11:51

I cannot get that same printer connected for the life of me doing everything mentioned.

Will the OP ever respond to a request for help?

HarlemSquirrel · 2015-07-21 21:23:59

Did you try running HPLIP as root?

Cavsfan · 2015-07-22 16:59:55

HarlemSquirrel wrote:

Did you try running HPLIP as root?

I installed hplip but it says it can't find it. Also I have a router that gives my printer static IP addresses: one day it'll be 192.168.1.101 and today it is 192.168.1.104. So I can't really put an IP address in as this page says:

http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/network.html

[cavsfan@arch-install ~]$ sudo pacman -S hplip
warning: hplip-3.15.6-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) hplip-3.15.6-1

Total Installed Size:  26.66 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

[cavsfan@arch-install ~]$ sudo hplip
[sudo] password for cavsfan: 
sudo: hplip: command not found

I've googled and searched for a week almost and no progress yet.

If I can get hplip to run though I think that would be the key.

I have Arch as my main OS now but I've also got Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela and 2 partitions with developmental installs of Ubuntu 15.10.

One Ubuntu 15.10 I was able to do this (which makes me think if I can get hplip running on Arch it'll work):

The first step had 3 options:
1) USB printer
2) network printer
3) network printer (that can connect one time with a USB cable).

I chose the 3rd option this time and it worked. It did not come with a USB cable but I used my old printer's cable and it worked great.
I just bought this HP ENVY 5530 all in one last weekend.

Thanks for any help!

Cavsfan · 2015-07-22 17:26:35

I did manage to get a test page printed just now.

I entered hp-setup -i 192.168.1.104 and it asked a few questions and gave some errors but it did send a test page to the printer.

Before that hp-setup -i only gave these three options:

  0*        usb         Universal Serial Bus (USB)                                
  1         net         Network/Ethernet/Wireless (direct connection or JetDirect)
  2         par         Parallel Port (LPT:)

I chose the 1 otion and it failed to find the printer. But when I supplied the ip address it printed a test page. I just wonder what it'll do when the IP address changes.

Here are the errors it gave me and I've tried to install:

error: HPLIP is not installed properly or is installed without graphical support. Please reinstall HPLIP
warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed.
error: hp-setup requires GUI support (try running with --qt3). Also, try using interactive (-i) mode.

Cavsfan · 2015-07-23 16:33:43

Problem solved at last. I finally noticed that I could set up a manual static IP address through the front panel on the printer.

I had to select manual and then press suggest and it came back with this IP address.

Once I did that I just entered sudo hp-setup -i 192.168.001.237

I think maybe the zeros were important as I think it got an error the first time. Not positively sure about that but it did work with the above command.

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#1 2014-07-31 17:10:12

[SOLVED] HP Envy 5530 Network Printer and Scanner

#2 2014-10-02 17:11:58

Re: [SOLVED] HP Envy 5530 Network Printer and Scanner

#3 2015-07-21 20:11:51

Re: [SOLVED] HP Envy 5530 Network Printer and Scanner

#4 2015-07-21 21:23:59

Re: [SOLVED] HP Envy 5530 Network Printer and Scanner

#5 2015-07-22 16:59:55

Re: [SOLVED] HP Envy 5530 Network Printer and Scanner

#6 2015-07-22 17:26:35

Re: [SOLVED] HP Envy 5530 Network Printer and Scanner

#7 2015-07-23 16:33:43

Re: [SOLVED] HP Envy 5530 Network Printer and Scanner

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