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Install/Configure HPLIP – HP Linux Imaging & Printing

Posted by admin on July 11th, 2008


HPLIP is an HP developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser based printers in Linux. HPLIP is free, open source software distributed under the MIT, BSD, and GPL license. HP does not provide formal consumer or commercial support for this software.

The HPLIP project provides printing support for 1,437 printer models, including Deskjet, Officejet, Photosmart, PSC (Print Scan Copy), Business Inkjet, LaserJet, Edgeline MFP, and LaserJet MFP. For a list of supported printing devices click here

Features include,

  • Printing to 1,437 HP printers, including Deskjet, Officejet, Photosmart, PSC, Business Inkjet and LaserJet. (For a complete list, please see Supported Devices).
  • High quality photo printing.
  • Full-bleed printing.
  • Automatic duplexing (on equiped printers).
  • Scanning from compatible Officejet, PSC, Photosmart, and LaserJet MFPs.
  • Automatic document feeder (ADF) scanning.
  • A Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) compatible interface.
  • Color and B&W scanning.
  • PC send fax utility.
  • Send fax address book.
  • Photo card access utility.
  • Device manager (toolbox) with maintenance tools, supplies levels, and status information.
  • USB, network, and parallel connection types.
  • Full integration with CUPS.
  • PPD file provided for Postscript-only laser printers.
  • Command line utilities for many often needed tasks.
  • A simple setup utility.
  • Automated Installer.

To install in openSUSE (openSUSE 11.0 here)

opensuse11:~ # yast2 –install hplip hplip-hpijs

This should install HPLIP for you on your openSUSE and a menu item for HP Device Manager under “Application – System – Monitor”

Click on HP Device Manager to install and administer the HP print/scan/fax devices.

HP Device Manager setup

The command line equivalent is

opensuse11:~ # hp-setup

There is a system tray utility available which can be started as

opensuse11:~ # hp-systray

HPLIP home page has good documentation on add HP devices and managing under HP Device manager. Unfortunately, I do not have a HP Printer to test with me.

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8 Responses to “Install/Configure HPLIP – HP Linux Imaging & Printing”

  1. HP DeskJet F380, HPLIP - openSUSE Forums Says:
    October 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    [...] the packages HPLIP was marked as "taboo" so never installed. By following this tutorial Install/Configure HPLIP – HP Linux Imaging & Printing | SUSE & openSUSE , the printer works [...]

  2. Leslie Turriff Says:
    January 4th, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    I recently purchased an HP F2210 All-in-One device for my openSUSE 11.0 (i586)system. I downloaded and installed hplip and hplip-hpijs successfully, but when I ran hp-setup, “Select from Discovered Devices” was not able to see the device. Using lsusb I was able to find an entry that appeared to be the device:

    Bus 001 Device 063: ID 03f0:2404 Hewlett-Packard

    And using the “Find Manually” button I was able to create an entry for it; however, after selecting a PPD file and clicking “Finish” I see the following messages:

    error: Unsupported model: Deskjet_F2200_series
    error: Printer Error. Printer is busy, offline, or in an error state. Please check the device and try again.

    Following the Troubleshooting section of the Help file from hp-setup, I reviewed /var/log/messages, where I see the following when I disconnect/reconnect the device:

    Jan 4 13:34:30 buckskin kernel: usb 1-1.1: USB disconnect, address 61
    Jan 4 13:34:30 buckskin kernel: usblp0: removed
    Jan 4 13:34:43 buckskin kernel: usb 1-1.1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 62
    Jan 4 13:34:43 buckskin kernel: usb 1-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    Jan 4 13:34:43 buckskin kernel: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 62 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0×2404
    Jan 4 13:34:43 buckskin kernel: usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, idProduct=2404
    Jan 4 13:34:43 buckskin kernel: usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
    Jan 4 13:34:43 buckskin kernel: usb 1-1.1: Product: Deskjet F2200 series
    Jan 4 13:34:43 buckskin kernel: usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: HP
    Jan 4 13:34:43 buckskin kernel: usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: CN8954R4QX05BT
    Jan 4 13:34:45 buckskin hp: io/hpmud/model.c 513: no Deskjet_F2200_series attributes found in /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat
    Jan 4 13:34:45 buckskin hp: io/hpmud/model.c 524: no Deskjet_F2200_series attributes found in /usr/share/hplip/data/models/unreleased/unreleased.dat
    Jan 4 13:34:45 buckskin hp: io/hpmud/musb.c 1967: ignoring hp:/usb/Deskjet_F2200_series?serial=CN8954R4QX05BT support=0
    Jan 4 13:34:45 buckskin kernel: ppdev0: registered pardevice
    Jan 4 13:34:45 buckskin hp: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
    Jan 4 13:34:45 buckskin kernel: ppdev0: unregistered pardevice

    Apparently the file /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat contains no matching entry for the F2210 device as it is reported to USB 1.1.1 (Deskjet F2200 series). Examining that file, I see the following entries that appear to be pertinent:

    [psc_2200_series]
    [psc_2210_series]

    I tried duplicating each of these entries with the headers [Deskjet_F2200_series] and [Deskjet_F2210_series] but when rerunning hp-setup I get results like

    Jan 4 13:34:45 buckskin hp: io/hpmud/musb.c 1967: ignoring hp:/usb/Deskjet_F2200_series?serial=CN8954R4QX05BT support=0
    Jan 4 13:34:45 buckskin kernel: ppdev0: registered pardevice
    Jan 4 13:34:45 buckskin hp: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1

    Any suggestions on how to proceed from here would be appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Leslie

  3. admin Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 6:58 am

    A newer version of HPLIP is available as 1-click install from packman

  4. admin Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 6:59 am

    A newer version of HPLIP is available as 1-click install from packman

    hplip 1-click

  5. Printe HP DEskjet D1660 - openSUSE Forums Says:
    May 31st, 2010 at 5:00 pm

    [...] Printe HP DEskjet D1660 Have a read of this HPLIP guide for openSUSE AFAIK, you will have to be root to configure with hp-setp. Use the 'su -c' command in a terminal, [...]

  6. bill tyler Says:
    August 7th, 2010 at 8:09 am

    I just installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 and I have an HP Officejet Pro 8000 attached. There was not an 8000 driver in the installation. I downloaded hplip-3.10.6_rhel-5.0.i386.rpm and installed it with rpm. I still could not find the 8000 driver but I chose the 7400 driver and it seems to work OK. Where caan I get the correct 8000 driver?

  7. tintenpatrone Says:
    August 23rd, 2010 at 12:14 am

    Do I need a router to use the HP Officejet Pro 8000 Wireless?

  8. New to OpenSuSE but not to nix--yet I still can't config HPLIP properly apparently. Says:
    September 8th, 2010 at 4:50 pm

    [...] via the 'hp-setup' CLI utility? Useful references: SDB:How to set-up a HP printer – openSUSE Install/Configure HPLIP – HP Linux Imaging & Printing | SUSE & openSUSE Reply With Quote + Reply to Thread « Previous Thread | Next [...]

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