Which driver for Laserjet 1020 printer?

[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

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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.

updated mac os now my hp Laserjet 1020 printer works fine