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Title: HP Laserjet P1102W set up help pls
Post by: jnektar on September 19, 2016, 08:00:51 AM

I am trying to install this printer on LL 2.0 with usb connection. The printer is showing in Printers - localhost but I am getting an error:

HP Device requires a proprietary xxx plug in, run hp plug in. (where xxx = word i can't decipher on my scrawl!!!)

I've searched this forum (there's one post) and googled ubuntu forums and tried everything (installing hplip etc) but no joy. I don't know where I am with it now. Can someone walk me through it step by step? I am comfortable with Terminal.

TIA.
     

Title: Re: HP Laserjet P1102W set up help pls
Post by: newtusmaximus on September 19, 2016, 09:11:20 AM

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_professional_p1102w.html (http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_professional_p1102w.html)  . Have you read/seen this

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html

Title: Re: HP Laserjet P1102W set up help pls
Post by: jnektar on September 19, 2016, 09:41:58 AM

Thanks that worked. I have bookmarked that page. I had downloaded the hplip via elsewhere. Don't know why it never worked but I used your link and it asked me if I wanted to uninstall and reinstall it so I said yes.

Oddly I had this printer on a same model machine (Dell D610) before running LL 2.2 or 2.4 and I installed it without fuss and, as I recall, without hplip. Certainly I never had the HP icon in my tray as I now do and never got the print messages that come up now but it's working and that is all I want so thanks again.

 

Title: Re: HP Laserjet P1102W set up help pls
Post by: newtusmaximus on September 19, 2016, 05:32:53 PM

Pleased you found the answer from the links.  :)