HP laserjet 100 m175 issues

[Fintan]

Hello, I bought a HP laserjet 100 m175 printer, attached it to my lappy (Kubuntu 12.10 KDE4.10) and all was fine. Didn't see a pop up or any other notification, but looking system settings->printer showed that the printer had been set up corectly and the test page worked fine.

After a while I changed the usb cable and the printer stopped working. I had a look in printer settings and the printer was still there but idle.
I set it to active and the printer setup showed: "unable to locate local printer lpd" or something to that extent.

Changed back to the old usb cable but to no avail.
Removed the printer from printer settings and reattached the printer. Nada.
It was not even seen this time.

I then added the printer manually to lpd, chose the correct driver "HP color laserjet MFP 100 m175 postscript" (There are a few of these drivers in the list so just chose one).
Again it showed idle. After activating and settins as default it showed : "unable to locate local printer lpd".

so I am back to square one (Zero?)

I am confused. Why was the printer correctly accepted at first and then refused later?

I have never setup a wireless printer as I don't have wireless at home.
Do I need a wireless router to do this?
How is it done from printer settings?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Edit: Tried kdesudo hp-setup. Not very usefull. Shows: 2Cannot find printer on usb" or similar.

[oshunluvr]

I don't think you can connect directly to a wireless printer without a wireless network unless you set up your computer as a "ad-hoc" network and make it the "hub." I think a lot of wifi cards don't support this function.

As far as connecting via USB, open a terminal, type "lsusb" and then plug in your printer and type "lsusb" again. If it's not is this list, either the USB cable is bad or the printers USB port is off/bad.

[oshunluvr]

I'd cycle the power on the printer too.

[Fintan]

Thanks Oshunluvr.
I'll keep the wireless on the backburner for the moment.

Unfortunately I am still on the road and will only be able to try your USB suggestion when I get back in the morning (My time).

I know the cable is good, it works for my old scanner. What do you suggest if: "or the printers USB port is off/bad."

What can I do then?

And:

I'd cycle the power on the printer too.

If you mean by that, turning the printer off and on again, or unplugging/replugging the usb cable. Tried that. Nada.

Cheers
Fintan

[vinnywright]

do you have the hplip and hplip-gui packages installed , may I suggest hpcups,hpijs, and any other hp packages you see when searching for hplip in muon(or whatever package manager you use) installing all these helped me and my hp printer (not a laserjet but hay) and got scaning working as well.

for wireless you would need a router and I had to do the initial wireless setup to connect it to the router in windows. but I did not try in linux as I had a win7 box handy and was in a hurry :-P

VINNY

[Fintan]

Thanks Vinny, I'll give that a whirl this WE.

I still don't know what to do if the printers USB port is off/bad.

Cheers
Fintan

[Fintan]

I am away form my office so I tried installing a friends Printer: HP Officejet 8500A Plus.

lsusb

:

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 5986:02ac Acer, Inc
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04fc:05da Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 03f0:5312 Hewlett-Packard Officejet Pro 8500A
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 148f:2000 Ralink Technology, Corp.

So, I ran hp-setup after doing this:

do you have the hplip and hplip-gui packages installed , may I suggest hpcups,hpijs, and any other hp packages

sudo hp-setup

:

fintan@fintanws2:~$ sudo hp-setup
[sudo] password for fintan:

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.6)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0

Copyright (c) 2001-14 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.

Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-fintan" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Searching... (bus=usb, search=(None), desc=0)
\Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 1254, in NextButton_clicked
self.showAddPrinterPage()
File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 691, in showAddPrinterPage
self.readwriteFaxInformation()
File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 1077, in readwriteFaxInformation
self.fax_number = unicode(d.getPhoneNum())
File "/usr/share/hplip/fax/ledmfax.py", line 137, in getPhoneNum
return self.readAttributeFromXml("/DevMgmt/FaxConfigDyn.xml",'faxcfgdyn:faxconfigdyn-faxcfgdyn:systemsettings-ddhonenumber')
File "/usr/share/hplip/base/device.py", line 2558, in readAttributeFromXml
xmlDict = utils.XMLToDictParser().parseXML(data)
File "/usr/share/hplip/base/utils.py", line 1029, in parseXML
log.error("Received Unicode error in xml= %s "%text)
File "/usr/share/hplip/base/logger.py", line 321, in error
txt = "error: %s" % message.encode("utf-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 724: ordinal not in range(128)
|Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 1254, in NextButton_clicked
self.showAddPrinterPage()
File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 691, in showAddPrinterPage
self.readwriteFaxInformation()
File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 1077, in readwriteFaxInformation
self.fax_number = unicode(d.getPhoneNum())
File "/usr/share/hplip/fax/ledmfax.py", line 137, in getPhoneNum
return self.readAttributeFromXml("/DevMgmt/FaxConfigDyn.xml",'faxcfgdyn:faxconfigdyn-faxcfgdyn:systemsettings-ddhonenumber')
File "/usr/share/hplip/base/device.py", line 2558, in readAttributeFromXml
xmlDict = utils.XMLToDictParser().parseXML(data)
File "/usr/share/hplip/base/utils.py", line 1029, in parseXML
log.error("Received Unicode error in xml= %s "%text)
File "/usr/share/hplip/base/logger.py", line 321, in error
txt = "error: %s" % message.encode("utf-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 724: ordinal not in range(128)

Done.
fintan@fintanws2:~$

Now I am confused

[vinnywright]

I do not think you need to run it as root ,,,,,,,but I never ran the CLI program . I used the hplip-gui or HPLIP toolbox as it is called in kickoff>applications>system

VINNY

EDIT when I did just run it "hp-setup" (no sudo) a nice GUI opened ,,,,,,the printer is not pluged in ATM so I did not go any further ,,,,,,so try it agin without the sudo