[Howto] HPLIP & CUPS

mhoskins

The HOW-TO is very good. I appreciate the effort that has been put in to it. I am stuck somewhere in the woods here. I followed the build instructions and all the USE flags and everything emerged with no problems.

KotBehemot · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 71 Location: Poland Gdansk

Hi there i have a different problem, my printer is HP DeskJet3650 at first it doesn' wanted to print any test page but everything was allright, lsusb showed me that i have a printer connected to USB

mhoskins

I went back through my notes and found that was a problem with the PyQt module before hplip emerged. The PyQt actually out of date. Once it was brought up to date, and hplip was re-emerged, and the daemons were restarted, the CUPS test print page that was queued up from a previous test came right out very nicely.

The only comment I would make regarding the whole document would be to move the emerge of hplip to the end of the emerge code window. That way all of the dependencies would be up to date for anybody who cut and pasted the command string into a terminal window. My .02.

Thanks again to the author and contributors. Very nice work.
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Stephonovich · n00b Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 72 Location: United States

mhoskins, glad you got it working. Sorry I didn't reply; but I don't have as much time as I'd like to check many forums anymore. The emerge string has been changed as you suggested, BTW. Never thought of that. Good tip.

Rucok, my first question; did you emerge hplip with the usb flag? Second, how exactly did you add the printer in CUPS? With the 'USB Printer #n' option? If so, try again, using AppSocket/HP Jet Direct, with the string hp:/usb/deskjet_3600?serial=TH36P124ZX6B that you quoted below. Basically, identical to the HOWTO.

On a related note, hplip 0.9.5 was recently released. It should make it's way into Portage within a few days, and this may fix problems several users are having.
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Stephonovich · n00b Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 72 Location: United States

I posted this article on the Gentoo Wiki. Page is here. Had some formatting issues I had to work around, and a bit of re-writing to have it fit the style up there. In any case, thought I'd post it.
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KotBehemot · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 71 Location: Poland Gdansk

Thanx for reply, first of all i want to say i didn' add my printer in CUPS with AppSocket/HP Jet Direct will try it and second i don' have hplip 0.9.5 in my portage tree yet, so i suppouse will have to wait :-)

but thx for the advice...

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bfdi533 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 133

I have an HP psc 2410 Photosmart printer connected via usb. I did the emerge with the usb USE flag and followed the HOWTO up to the probe part.

hp-probe -busb -ldebug fails to find the printer yet lsusb shows it is connected:

Stephonovich · n00b Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 72 Location: United States

I haven't had time to do anything computer related for the past few months due to work. Indeed, I wiped my Gentoo install awhile back. I'm heading out for the Navy in March, so that will obviously cut my time even further. If I decide to get an x86 laptop, I'll put some form of Linux on it; perhaps Gentoo. I'm leaning towards an Apple (sacrilege, I know) because, quite honestly, I've gotten tired of tweaking. Linux is great, but once you no longer have the time to deal with it's quirks (especially with a distro such as Gentoo), it becomes a hassle.

In any case, this project will probably remain untouched from now on. I'll edit to include the module you mentioned, however. Thanks for the heads-up.
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slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

One problem that could come about with this guide is that it tells you to set the USE flags in the command line. So if later you remerge that program, it's going to have whatever flags are set in make.conf and /etc/portage/package.use

So if I run and update, the program gets updated but has those USE flags unset.

It's a better idea to set them in package.use

Like when I noticed that gaim was installed without spell-checking support (and I liked the feature), I did:

gemini91 · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 317 Location: Naples, Fl

I had a tough time getting this to work on my systems, so I thought I would update this
with how I did it. One system is running ~x86 the other ~amd64.
Both systems run UDEV-078, HPLIP-0.9.7, CUPS-1.1.23-r5

The first problem was getting hpssd and hpiod to run, I woud get errors about
no socket, connection refused, when running hp-probe -busb

Edit
/usr/share/hplip/hpssd.py
CHANGE: #!/usr/bin/env python
TO: #!/usr/bin/python
Restart hplip: /etc/init.d/hplip restart
EDIT: NOTE YOU WILL LOSE THIS WITH AN UPDATE TO HPLIP

After that when I went into cups to configure the printer, under Device:
I had 'hp no_devices present'
Instead of hp:/usb/photosmart.7550?serial=CN33T420CT7E (HP photosmart_7550)
Also when bringing up Toolbox I got the same error 'no hp devices present'

I re-emerged cups, restarted cups (/etc/init.d/cupsd restart) and everything worked.

I hope this will save someone a lot of time.

webhawg · Apprentice Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 293

I agree. This guide was very helpful. My PSC 2610 works great.

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tkhobbes · Guru Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 367 Location: Switzerland

Hi all

Excellent - I found out about hplip through this article, and I think it will eliminate another blocker regarding "not switching completely to Linux".
I have a Deskjet with a duplex-thingy, and as far as I understand, the toolbox could manage this.

However - I cannot add the printer to CUPS as described; I don't see this "URL-like" hp:/usb/... entry in the list.

When doing /usr/share/hplip/probe -busb, this is the output:

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tkhobbes · Guru Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 367 Location: Switzerland

OK - after a full reboot (?), I can add the printer using the hp:/usb... thingy.

What I now want to do is use the hp-toolbox on the client for full control on the printer; the client-cups is connected (or how do you say?) to the server-cups and I can see the newly added printer also if I point my browser (on the client) to http://localhost:631.

However, the hp-toolbox utility is still complaining about no printer being available with the hp: cups backend...

How comes?
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yinkoshaumer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 139

I got my HP PSC 2575 to print through cups w/o a hitch.
However, when I try to start hplip it fails at starting hpssd with out any error message. I tried the couple work arounds as stated before (modifying the the start-stop-daemon command) but I haven't been able to get it to launch.

Any help is appreciated.

denilsson · n00b Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 1

I have tried to install the hplip software for a couple of months but never succesed.
I can print over the network using cups, and hpjis but i wanted to access the builtin cardreader on the printer.
So i Did try in an other way.

My setup in the webinterface on the "HP Photosmart 8450"

Host Name: HP8450
Active Gateway: 192.168.0.1
Active Preferred DNS Server: 192.168.0.1
Active Alternate DNS Server:

Connections Enabled Hardware Address Connected IP Address Subnet Mask
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wired (802.3) Yes 00-0f-20-d2-0c-1f Yes 192.168.0.100 255.255.255.0

Checking what nmap reports!

pingvinen ~ # nmap -sS -O -PI -PT 192.168.0.100

Starting nmap 3.83.DC13 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-01-01 16:44 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page
Interesting ports on HP8450 (192.168.0.100):
(The 1664 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
9100/tcp open jetdirect
MAC Address: 00:0F:20:D2:0C:1F (Hewlett Packard)
Device type: printer|printer server
Running: HP embedded
OS details: HP Deskjet 6127 printer or InkJet 1200 printer server
Uptime 1.056 days (since Sat Dec 31 15:23:30 2005)

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 5.091 seconds

I guess the cardreader is on port 139, becuse the memorycard showup as a sharedmap if accessing the printer from Windows
Trying with nmblookup !

pingvinen ~ # nmblookup -A 192.168.0.100
Looking up status of 192.168.0.100
HP000F20D20C1F <00> - B <ACTIVE>
HP000F20D20C1F <20> - B <ACTIVE>
HP8450 <00> - B <ACTIVE>

Trying smbclient with the choosen hostname !

pingvinen ~ # smbclient -L HP8450
session request to HP8450 failed (Call returned zero bytes (EOF))
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)

Trying with the other hostname nmblookup reported, As you can se it's the letters "HP" followd by the MAC adress of the printer.

pingvinen ~ # smbclient -L HP000F20D20C1F
Password:

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
IPC$ IPC IPC Service
MEMORY_CARD Disk FLASH MEMORY PHOTO

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------

trying to mount the shared map!

mount -t smbfs //HP000F20D20C1F/MEMORY_CARD /home/thomas/test/

pingvinen ~ # ls /home/thomas/test/
KAJAKERN.JPG

YES ! it worked.[/i]

I hope this will be for some help for anyone :wink:

Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1623 Location: U.S.A.

Are any of you guys using this driver having problems print image files?

HP Laserjet 1022. Seems to print text, pdf, webpages fine. But if open an image file like a png, jpg that is large, the printer will error out.
If I print anything like that it want to print out about 2-4 pages usually. Usually I get 1 page with nothing but a title, then errors out on the
2nd page. If I check the logs (which say nothing really, even with full debug2 on) it is trying to print and 3 and 4 pages usually, but hung up
on the 2nd page. Printer job hangs up, and have to delete the job in order to print anything else.

I use to be able to print large images with my Deskjet 722, also scan a document with xsane and printout the resulting image file.
With this laserjet 1022, I found that I have to scale images taken with camera, scanner,.. down in Gimp, then it will print.

This became more apparent when using xsane to scan a letter size document. I had to use the COPY function of Xsane to get anything I scanned
to print out. Then I had to setup copy to 600dpi (300dpi seemed to not work right with resulting output to printer), and then use the Zoom setting in
Xsane to .95. Then it scanned and sent image to the printer almost the same size. If I use a Zoom of 1.0, printer will printout 1 page, then hang on the
second with the printer errored out.

It looks like a border (margin) issue almost. I just sucks that with the Deskjet everything just seemed to work. With the LaserJet, images have to be
MANUALLY scaled to work or the printer errors and job hangs on page.
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KotBehemot · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 71 Location: Poland Gdansk

At last, i solved why i could not run toolbox, the solution is very easy, my uri was not ok dunno why, to solve that problem i run hp-setup and it configured my printer for me, and now toolbox is running nicely:-))))))

tkhobbes · Guru Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 367 Location: Switzerland

hp-setup does not work for me - the printer is not attached to the actual client, it's attached to a server (which has both hplip and cups installed).

When running hp-setup on the client, it says:

KotBehemot · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 71 Location: Poland Gdansk

Try hp-setup as root and this is complet howto from hp site:

chrisashton84 · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:14 am Post subject:

tkhobbes · Guru Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 367 Location: Switzerland

Rucok: I know this how-to you posted; however, it is apparently referring to the situation where the printer is connected to a local workstation via usb; my hp-printer is connected to some server (and correctly detected there), but I want to use the hp-toolbox on a client - the printer is visible also in my client's CUPS (which basically just mirrors the server's CUPS, or however I might describe that...), but the hp-toolbox complains because no printer is attached to the client (which is correct) - so it does not seem to be working via network, only when the printer is attached locally.
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