HP LaserJet 4050N
 

I just got an old LaserJet 4050N (that works through Windows) and am attempting to get it hooked into LinuxMint.

I have installed hplips and hplips-cups, but nothing prints.
I don't know also if this will work via Wireless like I hope. If not, how am I supposed to physically connect?

Here's the Linux Printing page on this printer:

http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_4050

Here's HP's drivers page:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...5&swEnvOID=181

I glanced at this HP page and it wasn't immediately clear whether it had wireless networking or just ethernet.

I would suggest giving it a static IP address; that makes it easier to set it up on the computers.

Once you get it on your network and can ping it, your computers, whether Windows or Linux, cabled or wireless, should be able to print to it. My HP L7680 works flawlessly with HPLIP.

Did you install the HPLIP graphical user interface? It's often a separate package from HPLIP itself and makes working with HPLIP if you haven't used HPLIP before.

Edit: Once you install HPLIP, you still must set the printer up in HPLIP. The mere presence of HPLIP on your computer does nothing.

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web.../hp_setup.html

LaserJet 4050N Linux print driver resolution - works great
 

I've struggled for a week trying this and that to get a driver that would start quickly, and print the advertised number of pages per minute. Alas it seemed hopeless. Then I was evaluating a linux distro using ZFS and as I was setting up noticed the HPLIP driver installation tool, and gui interface. It worked so easily. I was blown away.

Some people had suggested it to me, bue it wasn't working. Another fella reported the same... did not work with CUPS... and we were both right. Aparently if you have enough non functioning driver junk on the system it becomes totally lost. I installed the exact same complement of drivers one for one as the operational Linux distro had, and yet my office machine still failed to function. driver looked good, but no temp file created and sent to printer, and nothing in the que!

I learned a while back not to keep much on the system, so my operating disk is a SSD, I added a Terabyte drive to house my working files. So it was easy enough to dump a copy of my email address book, my bookmarks and then blow off the whole OS and reload. It was ultimately faster than futzing with the config which ate up 30 minutes like a blink of an eye. In another 20 I was reloaded, and another 10 to configure...

FIXED...

by the way it has a "hammer" in the controls that runs a diagnostic. Mine failed a lot of the stuff, but my Linux Mint 18.2 isn't supported. Nontheless working beautifully.

So if you're having trouble, I know it may be a lot of stuff in some cases to back up and restore, but it may end your problems... It did for me.



Dave