Which driver for Laserjet 1020 printer?

[swirler]

Which driver options do I currently have in Wheezy for the Laserjet 1020 printer?
There seem to be several options,quite frankly I'm not sure I've understood which should I go for:based on info on the download page of http://www.hplipopensource.com there should be no need to install the driver again

Debian 7.4 supplies HPLIP 3.12.6 and it does support your printer

but as a matter of fact the printer is recognized and identified as the correct model but then does not print at all. When clicking on Printer state in Administration-->Printing->Properties I can see

Stopped - /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed

so what do I need to do now?

Reinstall the driver from hplipopensource (I remember that something similar happened a while ago in Ubuntu,and installing the driver from there solved the issue),or add maybe some missing firmware,or possibly edit some configuration file?
According to same discussions,package foo2zjs may be needed (actually,in some older threads they talk about compiling it),is that what am I missing now to make this printer work?

EDIT:I have installed foo2zjs from the Debian repository and it still doesn't work,having looked at the system logs,looks like I still have to download some firmware for this printer

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/usr/sbin/hplj1020: foo2zjs: Missing HP LaserJet 1020 firmware file /lib/firmware/hp/sihp1020.dl
/usr/sbin/hplj1020: foo2zjs: ...read foo2zjs installation instructions and run ./getweb 1020

So what's the best way to do this?

[swirler]

Update:I've run getweb 1020 and I think the firmware has actually been added to lib/firmware/hp/ as I can see a new file there named sihp1020.dl .
I've also added myself to the lp group,and yet I can't print anything:the printer is recognized and correctly identified,I can access the cups interface from http://localhost:631 and see pending jobs and such,but I can't print.
I've also seen that if I enter http://localhost:631/admin I don't get a prompt for my password,is something still missing?

I also must note that I have avahi disabled,but then in Ubuntu I disabled it as well and the very same printer works,although with the driver downloaded and installed from http://www.hplipopensource.com .

Do I have to resort to same method,or is there something that I can do to make the current setup work?

[swirler]

I could use some advice here:if I'm missing something obvious,or there is as thread already providing a working solution,feel free to set me right on track.

[Bulkley]

The Debian supplied driver should work. I suspect the problem is elsewhere. How is your computer connected to the printer?

If you find CUPS awkward, try system-config-printer which uses the CUPS database.

[PhilGil]

Some of the HP LaserJet printers are very fiddly to get working; I've never been able to get my LaserJet 1000 printer to work consistently with the pre-installed drivers. I've had much better luck following the instructions here: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/.

[swirler]

Thanks for your replies,the printer is connected to the computer via its USB cable.
As far as the CUPS interface goes,I'm not used to it-but as long as the printer can actually print,I can get used to it.

I've read before the instructions on http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ ,sounds like they advice against using the foo2zjs package included in the distro and compile their own package instead:at this point,assuming I have to discard the distro packaged driver and use an alternative,what would be the difference between using foo2zjs from http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com ,or hplip from here http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html ?

The second one I know already because I've used it in Ubuntu and it worked with this printer,however if there are advantages in using the other one,I can (hopefully) manage to install it.

[Bulkley]

The easiest way to try another driver is to choose the nearest one in the CUPS list. Laserjet 1022 ? I fought for a few weeks getting our Canon printer to work. Like your HP everything looked right but nothing printed. The culprit turned out to be a setting in the printer, something for Windows that Linux didn't like. Now, I'm not suggesting that you have a similar problem, just that you be aware that there is more than the driver involved. I have even heard of a printer not working because of a USB problem. There was someone a while back who had the USB cord in a USB3 port while the Printer demanded USB2. These things don't always make sense.

[swirler]

Thanks to everyone,I think this is solved:today,before resorting to more radical solutions,I've just deleted the printer from Administration-->Printing and then,with the printer on,had the system "discover" it again.
It works,apparently-maybe after downloading the specific firmware for this printer,this was the step to take to have it properly configured.
I'll try to print some stuff either from the browser and different documents and see how it goes,at the moment the only thing that still I'm not sure about is why I don't get a password prompt from http://localhost:631/admin and consequently some administration features can't be accessed.
Are you supposed to launch the browser as root in order to gain access to the administration part of the CUPS interface?

[Bulkley]

I use http://127.0.0.1:631/printers. It should be the same as http://localhost:631/ but strange things happen.

Are you supposed to launch the browser as root in order to gain access to the administration part of the CUPS interface?

No. CUPS will ask for a root password when you try to access Administration. When it does enter root as your username and then your root password.

[swirler]

Thanks,I'll try this other address and see if I gain access to the printer administration.

[dibl]

I have a Laserjet Pro 1606dn that also uses the foozjs driver. Sometime in the past 6 months (I think) Debian has packaged that driver with the name printer-driver-foo2zjs. Install that package and it should "just work" by installing it through the cups interface.

If you use the hpcups driver, some of these printers, including mine and (apparently) yours, use a downloadable proprietary firmware plugin, downloaded from an HP server. Here is a note to myself on how to run the command that I had to use multiple times before the Debian package was built (for KDE desktop user):

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#hp "filter failed" error

Alt-F2 "kdesu hp-plugin -u --required --reason 0"


give password, accept default "download from hp server" choice, etc.

In a root terminal, it is simply

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hp-plugin -u --required --reason 0

Apparently the printer-driver-foo2zjs package gets around the downloadable proprietary plugin requirement. There is a hannah-foo2zjs package that you use to download the plugin. More here.

[jkeating]

I had similar problems with an HP Photosmart B110, which prints fine on a USB connection but lost its wireless connection during an upgrade. Over a period of many months, I've tried all sorts of things -- adding myself to lpadmin, changing ownership of /usr/lib/cups/backend and its contents to to root.lp, on and on. The printer was recognized wirelessly, but print jobs always failed and the printer was paused or disabled.

What finally worked for me was simple: I set it up with system-config-printer (Applications, Settings, Printing) instead of from HP's GUI interface. I just made sure the printer wasn't sleeping, and system-config-printer detected it under Network and set it up correctly.

This worked on a laptop with Wheezy and with one running Lubuntu.

Don't use the HP tools. They don't do anything that the system tools can't do better, as far as I can tell.

[Francewhoa]

Newest Canon driver version 290 and how-to install on Debian Wheezy 7 at https://wiki.debian.org/PrinterDriver/Canon/UFR-II
Might work with Laserjet 1020

[alaves]

A full solution driver will be available in January. Please see this document for more information:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/Te ... =c03365145

I beleive those drivers are now available, follow the link below for the software installation packages:

http://www.hpdriver.net/hp-laserjet-1020-driver/

Happy Holidays!

[swirler]

Well, it's been a while since I've opened this thread, however I've finally tried to print something, only to discover that I still can't print at all: it looks like it's going to print, but then after seeing the preview it just sits there -nothing actually happens other than adding pending jobs in printing queue.

I may have to resort to the proprietary HP driver, I know it works in Ubuntu and even if I'm not too keen on this stuff, sometimes apparently it's the way to go to get things working.

[devadasan]

I have a hp Laserjet 1020 that also uses the foozjs hp Laserjet 1022 driver . Sometime in the past 6 months (I think) Debian has packaged that driver with the name printer-driver-foo2zjs. Install that package and it should "just work" by installing it through the cups interface.

If you use the hpcups driver, some of these printers, including mine and (apparently) yours, use a downloadable proprietary firmware plugin, downloaded from an HP server. Here is a note to myself on how to run the command that I had to use multiple times before the Debian package was built (for KDE desktop user):

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#hp "filter failed" error

Alt-F2 "kdesu hp-plugin -u --required --reason 0"


give password, accept default "download from hp server" choice, etc.

In a root terminal, it is simply

Code: Select all

hp-plugin -u --required --reason 0

Apparently the printer-driver-foo2zjs package gets around the downloadable proprietary plugin requirement. There is a hannah-foo2zjs package that you use to download the plugin. More here.

updated mac os now my hp Laserjet 1020 printer works fine