When I connect
HP Laserjet Professional P 1102w
to myXPS13
withUbuntu 18.04
, HP Device Manager recognizes the printer and tells me that theprinter is idle
(I have also installed the proprietary hp plugin).Then I click
Print Test Page
and it tells me that itStarted a print job
and thenPrint job has completed
, but my printer does NOT do anything!
Another thing that struck me is that ls /dev/usb
outputs lp0
, but as soon as I start to print a document it shows me ls: cannot access '/dev/usb': No such file or directory
until I reconnect the printer device.
What could be wrong? The printer works just fine on my Mac as usual, what can I do to make it run on Ubuntu? I am struggeling for days with this problem now!
EDIT: I have already installed the needed proprietary binary plugin for my printer
I had a similar problem with Ubuntu 18.04.1 and hplip 3.18.7. Installing hplip 3.18.6 solved the problem.
My HP LaserJet M1132 Multifunction Printer is detected and configured properly with hplip 3.18.7, and
hp-check
shows no errors nor warnings, but a Cups test page stays in the queue with state "Filter failed". In/var/log/cups/error_log
I see:See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1788706
You can download hplip 3.18.6 from here, then install it as usual, with
sh hplip-3.18.6.run
. Don't install it as root, use the same user you used to log in (and be sure that user is in thesudo
group).If you find any problem during installation, specially downloading your printer driver, run
hp-plugin
.Afterwards, running
hp-check
should show no errors (and preferably no warnings as well). Test your setup, e.g., by printing a test job from Cups.