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Installing Driver for HP Laserjet 1020
I accidentally deleted the printer driver for the above printer.I forgot how to re-install it. Can someone explain to me how to do it.
Ubuntu 9.04 Thanks |
You need to
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sudo apt-get install hplip |
Did you delete the printer driver or the print queue The latter is a common name for what gets set up when you "install a printer" to an OS. To actually delete the driver file would take a bit of digging.
Have you tried installing the printer using the Ubuntu utility or the web interface? (http://localhost:631) |
Printer Drivers
What next?
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install hplip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done hplip is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic linux-headers-2.6.28-11 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ |
What happens when you run hp-setup (in a terminal, as your user)? Post up any errors you see.
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HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2) Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 8.0 Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed. error: hp-setup requires GUI support (try running with --qt3). Also, try using interactive (-i) mode. daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ |
It looks as though you need to run "hp-setup --qt3" as it natively looks for QT4. If you aren't using KDE4, you won't have it.
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Open a terminal and type in
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hp-setup --qt3 |
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Parallel, $ hp-setup -i -a -x /dev/parport0 automatic, no testpage: Parallel, choose $ hp-setup -i -b par device: Notes: 1. If no serial number, USB ID, IP, or device node is specified, the USB and parallel busses will be probed for devices. 2. Using 'lsusb' to obtain USB IDs: (example) $ lsusb Bus 003 Device 011: ID 03f0:c202 Hewlett-Packard $ hp-setup --auto 003:011 (Note: You may have to run 'lsusb' from /sbin or another location. Use '$ locate lsusb' to determine this.) 3. Parameters -a, -f, -p, or -t are not valid in GUI (-u) mode. See Also: hp-makeuri hp-probe error: option --qt3 not recognized daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ |
How did you uninstall the printer?
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Forgive me I don't know all of the terminology. |
Sounds as though you have removed the print queue rather than the whole printer. Follow these instructions to add the queue back http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Jaunty#Printers and see also http://wiki.ubuntu-za.org/HowTo:Printers and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Printers (this will give more info on HP printers).
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Detected Printer
Ubuntu detected my printer, but the printer does not function.
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Do you get any errors? Have you looked at http://localhost/:631 and what happens when you try to set up the printer using the Gnome system admin tools? Post up error messages/screen shots so we can see what's happening.
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