Dear Till, thank you for your help, patience and also for fixing this bug. :)
I now see what went wrong in my system: I autologin to *gnome-shell* and all this time I was using gnome's default "printer config thingy". I had no idea it was different from system-config-printer until I executed the command you told me. I logged in to unity and realised that system-config-printer is used by default instead of gnome's "printer config thingy". When added through system-config-printer, my printer works like a charm. Kudos to you sir! P.S. my printer is connected by parallel port ( IEEE 1284). at the end of the log I found this: **** Incorrect IEEE 1284 Device ID: [u'drv:///hpijs.drv/hp-laserjet_1320_series-hpijs-pcl3.ppd', u'drv:///hpcups.drv/hp-laserjet_1320_series-pcl3.ppd', u'hplip:0/ppd/hplip/HP/hp-laserjet_1320-ps.ppd', u'hplip:2/ppd/hplip/HP/hp-laserjet_1320-ps.ppd'] **** Actual ID is MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:hp LaserJet 1320 series; **** Please report a bug against the HPLIP component **** Incorrect IEEE 1284 Device ID: [u'drv:///hpijs.drv/hp-laserjet_1320_series-hpijs-pcl3.ppd', u'drv:///hpcups.drv/hp-laserjet_1320_series-pcl3.ppd', u'hplip:0/ppd/hplip/HP/hp-laserjet_1320-ps.ppd', u'hplip:2/ppd/hplip/HP/hp-laserjet_1320-ps.ppd'] **** Actual ID is MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:hp LaserJet 1320 series; **** Please report a bug against the HPLIP component -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872991 Title: printer Hp 1320 needs Generic PCL 5e driver to work properly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/872991/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
