On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 18:10:39 -0400, brian wrote: > My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet > P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that > it's recognised (USB connection, not wireless) but the problem is that > it apparently needs a *proprietary* plug-in to print properly. > > I have H-Ps installer, and everything goes OK up to the point at which > it goes to an unspecified H-P site to download the plug-in. The > installer then claims that the file it tried to download has an > invalid checksum and may have been modified, and that's it, the > program exits. Substantially the same thing happens if I use hp-plugin > outside of the installer, it just tells me that it can't download the > file due to an invalid checksum. > > H-P support are as much use as a chocolate teapot, all they will do is > to point me back to the site where I can download the installer again. > I have tried to point out to them that it appears to be a corrupted > file on their website (if I believe the error message!) but it gets me > nowhere.
To be fair to HP they make it crystal clear how Linux printing support is provided: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/support.html You might want to co-operate with the process and report your problem as a question if it persists. > Anybody got any ideas before I package the printer up and send it back > to Amazon to exchange it for another brand? I'm using 64-bit testing, > should anyone feel that makes a difference. 1. Go to https://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/ and download the latest *.run. 2. 'mkdir plugin' and move your file into it. 3. The file is a shell script containing needed plugins and other files. Make it executable with 'chmod 755 *.run' and look at its help with './*.run -h'. 4. Check what you are going to install by using './*.run --tar vxf' to extract the files from the script. 5. Install with './*.run'. Only this final step needs root privilege. -- Brian.
