On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 05:01:26PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 11/02/2015 04:46 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > 151101 Daniel Frey wrote: > >> I had so many problems with hplip I stopped using it. I found another way > >> to use my hp CP1025nw with foomatic and that works trouble-free. > > > > Don't be coy ! -- What did you actually do which works (smile) ? > > > > It's a driver for Laserjet printers, it won't work on deskjets AFAIK. > The driver is foo2zjs: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ - it relies on > ghostscript.
I used to use foo2zjs happily many a year ago. But then it vanished from portage and I never got it working again. > I looked and it looks like that won't help you. I had so many problems > with hplip randomly stopping working and refusing to reinstall I gave up > on printing for six months before I found foo2zjs. What I found out is that the plugin hplip downloads for my laserjet 1000 is a self-extracting archive running on python2, but it does not state a python version. So if your system python is set to v3, the plugin intall will fail with only an “I failed” message. Once I switched to python 2, it ran through. *shrug* A few days ago I couldn’t get my printer to print more than one page in a go. It just stops after the first page. Luckily, I have a virtual Ubuntu which I originally set up just out of curiosity, but now acts as my printing client, because it just works™. If I find the time, I will go through the tips of this thread myself. PS.: The printer is from 2004, and only now the toner, which is the one I bought with the printer – is getting weaker. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. Why do Java developers wear glasses? – Because they don’t C#.
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