[HOWTO] HP LaserJet 10xx

alo-alo · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 74

I finally found the solution for the foo2zjs driver (with cups).

Solution: you must use cups (+foo2zjs driver) with hplip's hp backend.

I had problems with my HP LJ 1020 using foo2zjs with cups' usb backend. I got messages like:

syndr0me · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Russia, Moscow

Finally got it working (need to reemerge all printing stuff with "samba" flag). Thanks for this guide.

Basic funtionality is fine, but still missing software paper-out support, implementation for 1200x1200 dpi and printed pages counter. However, this is not so important.

melbaum · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 35

I have the same printer and got it working a couple weeks ago. When it works it's really nice. BUT... I have to plug it in with hald stopped! Otherwise I get the error -110 business. There's a little command that comes with foo2zjs called usb_printerid. You do usb_printerid /dev/usb/lp0 and if it answers:
GET_DEVICE_ID string:
MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP LaserJet 1020;CMD:ACL;CLS:PRINTER;DES:HP LaserJet 1020;FWVER:20041129;
then you're in business. The annoying catch is to start hald by hand to plug in a disk or something.

Next, you may discover that it drops dead in the middle of long print jobs. This is discussed somewhere on the net already. I suspect that ghostscript hiccups a little and the printer freezes. After that the only solution I found (personally and web-ly) is to turn the power off and on again, to reload the firmware. Aha: provided, of course, that hald is stopped! Has anyone found a way to get around this? It means the printer is only useful if you're sitting right next to it. Even resetting the usb device from the terminal would be a help. Is that possible?

Btw, I'm using kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, udev 058, and hald 0.4.7-r2. Could try updating those if it works better for someone who did. For foo2zjs I had to install the latest ~x86 version, -20060118. Otherwise portage didn't find some of the files.

alo-alo · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 74

Ok, you are right, my howto isn't working as it should. I have the same problems like you (long printing-stops, power off is needed etc). You mean with hald you can't even print?

I updated foo2zjs today. Unmerged foo2zjs and downloaded the newest foo2zjs tarball from http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ and followed the instructions on the foo2zjs' web page. The situation is the same. I'm using hald 0.5.5.1-r3, kernel 2.6.14-ck7, udev 085.

melbaum · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 35

with hald started I get an endless string of error -110 from usblp0 in /var/log/messages. usb_printerid reports device or resource busy. I've been trying to catch it with fuser or lsof when it crashes, but so far no luck killing a process to restore the printer's operation.

alo-alo · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 74

I updated the firmware to 20050318 now. Will check now if it makes any differences. I'm running hald all the time and get the error message after printing 15-20+ pages.

alo-alo · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 74

OK, with the 20050318 firmware my printer plays crazy

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melbaum · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 35

any luck? I found that I wasn't following your advice, and still used the cups backend. I changed that to hplip and the printer works differently. not better though. I get different errors. Lately I unmerged foo2zjs and installed it directly as you suggested, with the hotplug script instead of udev rules. still no good. The 2005 firmware doesn't work at all, just freezes on the first job. The old FW still crashes after a few pages. For what it's worth I upgraded ghostscript-esp to 8.15.1 and udev to 079.

here's what I see in /var/log/messages at power-on:

Mar 16 13:02:38 nununu usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
Mar 16 13:02:38 nununu drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 6 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x2B17
Mar 16 13:02:39 nununu /etc/hotplug/usb/hplj1020: loading HP LaserJet 1020 firmware /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1020.dl to /dev/usb/lp0 ...
Mar 16 13:02:39 nununu /etc/hotplug/usb/hplj1020: ... download successful.

if hald was running I get this:

Mar 16 13:03:51 nununu python: hpssd [ERROR] Not found
Mar 16 13:03:51 nununu lp0: invalid ModelQueryResult: msg=modelqueryresult result-code=48 prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 396
Mar 16 13:03:51 nununu python: hpssd [ERROR] Not found
Mar 16 13:03:51 nununu python: hpssd [ERROR] Unsupported model: HP_LaserJet_1020
Mar 16 13:03:51 nununu foo2zjs-wrapper: foo2zjs-wrapper -P -z1 -r600x600 -p9 -s7 -m1 -n1
Mar 16 13:03:56 nununu hpiod: unable to read uri:hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1020?device=/dev/usb/lp0 Device::DeviceID: Input/output error
Mar 16 13:03:56 nununu lp0: INFO: open device failed; will retry in 30 seconds...

I lprm the failed job, stop hald, turn off the printer, and restart hplip:

Mar 16 13:06:43 nununu usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Mar 16 13:06:43 nununu drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 7 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F 0 pid 0x2B17
Mar 16 13:06:44 nununu /etc/hotplug/usb/hplj1020: loading HP LaserJet 1020 firmware /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp10 20.dl to /dev/usb/lp0 ...
Mar 16 13:06:44 nununu /etc/hotplug/usb/hplj1020: ... download successful.
Mar 16 13:06:56 nununu hpiod: 0.9.7 accepting connections at 32776...

when I print successfully it looks like this, but notice the complaint from hpssd, whatever that is:

Mar 16 13:10:00 nununu python: hpssd [ERROR] Not found
Mar 16 13:10:00 nununu python: hpssd [ERROR] Unsupported model: HP_LaserJet_1020
Mar 16 13:10:05 nununu foo2zjs-wrapper: gs -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -g4960x7016 -r600x600 -sDEVICE=pbmraw
Mar 16 13:10:05 nununu foo2zjs-wrapper: foo2zjs -r600x600 -g4960x7016 -p9 -m1 -n1 -d1 -s7 -z1 -u 96x96 -l 96x96 -P

when it dies I see:

Mar 16 13:19:08 nununu python: hpssd [ERROR] Not found
Mar 16 13:19:08 nununu lp0: invalid ModelQueryResult: msg=modelqueryresult result-code=48 prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 396
Mar 16 13:19:08 nununu foo2zjs-wrapper: foo2zjs-wrapper -P -z1 -r600x600 -p9 -s7 -m1 -n1
Mar 16 13:19:22 nununu drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: error -110 reading printer status
Mar 16 13:19:32 nununu drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: error -110 reading printer status
Mar 16 13:19:42 nununu drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: error -110 reading printer status
Mar 16 13:19:52 nununu drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: error -110 reading printer status
etc etc etc...

in the new configuration it seems able, sometimes, to go on printing for a while. the funny thing is that even if it manages to finish the job, it doesn't clear it from lpq. I have to do that by hand, and then power-off.

Suspecting hpssd, I found that hp-check and a few other of the hp-* scripts require sip and PyQt. Those should really be dependencies in the foo2zjs ebuild. sip emerges alright, but PyQt requires qscintilla, whose ebuild crashes on an insecure runpath (bugs #81745 and 122343).

alo-alo · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 74

The same here, no luck, the same problems. Yes, the 2005 firmware sucks. I tried the printer on SUSE 10.0, no luck. I'm thinking of getting a new printer, maybe samsung ml-2010. Did you perhaps contact the author of foo2zjs? Does he own hp lj 1020?

melbaum · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 35

no, I didn't contact anyone else. We could send this thread to the author. The printer is really nice so it's a shame it doesn't quite work. Last thought might be to run it in windows under qemu and then network it back to linux. That's really beyond the call of duty, I think!

alo-alo · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 74

Ok, I wrote to the author and let's see what will he answer.

alo-alo · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 74

melbaum, which motherboard do you have? Could be that the kernel's support for usb 2.0 sucks? The author didn't respond.

fiolek · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 1

This is my e-mails with driver author:

e-mail:1
Hi
firmware is uploaded with no problem on Gentoo when I use to
"make install-hotplug"
I have
"kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: error -110 reading printer status"
problem when I use 2004 firmware

e-mail:2
Thanks for the report, though the message is normal as it is cups that
checks for printer status via an ioctl call which the printer does not
support. Beside this the printer should work.
Alessandro

e-mail:3
I have one more question about printing. On the original foo2zjs my printer
hangs down when I print more than 30 copies how is it with this drivers ?
Did you have any bug report of that behaviour on yours drivers ?

e-mail:4
yep. The solution is uploading the driver twice.
One should be done automatically. then print 1 page and upload it again with
cat /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1020.dl > /dev/usb/lp0
Then the printer should not hang anymore.
Hope this helps.
Alessandro

e-mail:5
Any chance to resolv this problem in the future ?
This printer is not bad but whit linux sometimes make me mad.
Thx for help
Maciek

e-mail:6
New firmware upload should solve the problem, though uploading it like
we do causes problems. Still have to check.
Alessandro

alo-alo · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 74

Hm, it does not work for me. I printed a 34 page document. Printed page 1, then uploaded the firmware and could print 27 pages, it stopped at page 29 (it couldn't finish the whole page).

melbaum · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 35

sorry. I stopped getting the reminders and lost track of the thread. I have the printer working under windows in qemu-0.8 with the hp driver. Unfortunately I can't get the network to work so I can see into the windows. (The user-mode network to see out to the internet is fine. just works. but doesn't help.) I managed the networking in qemu-0.7.2 with vde, but that version has no usb support!

I have an IBM T42 laptop. I'd really still prefer an all-linux solution...

alo-alo · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 74

Hi! I installed Fedora 5 and followed http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-105048.html. And it works. Printed 80 pages without any problems.

genstef · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 11:53 am Post subject:

I have added a new version of the ebuild. I hope it works better for you guys!

Koxta · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject:

Hi!

I cannot build the newest version:

genstef · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject:

foomatic-rip is part of foomatic-filters.

$ qfile foomatic-rip
net-print/foomatic-filters (/usr/bin/foomatic-rip)

Please remerge that.

Koxta · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 12:49 am Post subject:

Thanks, that worked

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gasparov · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 105

I have problems with this printer

emerging foo2zjs

genstef · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:50 am Post subject:

The driver download problem should be fixed already, this printer works very good for me, but it is probably better to use some other printer that does not need a firmware.

slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

For this guide you should really be using the files /etc/portage/package.use and /etc/portage/package.keywords for specifying per-package USE flags and keywording. As your guide is, if a new version of any of those came out it wouldn't use the USE flags you used. And if you ever tried to update your system it would also try to install an earlier version of foo2zjs.

So, to fix this put these entries:

/etc/portage/package.keywords

genstef · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:49 am Post subject:

You do not have to enable any use flag. Rather disable foomaticdb in make.conf. The others are needed but default useflags, so you usually should not need to change anything there.

baigsabeeh · Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject: