I fought with my HP Laserjet P1005 all yesterday morning, but it refused to print no matter what I tried. I tried everything except hitting it with a belt (I don't believe in corporal punishment). I need to find some way to get it to cooperate. It won't print from this Lenovo ThinkCenter desktop no matter what I try. On my Lenovo laptop and on an Asus Netbook it's always been simple. You make sure HPLIP is installed (which it usually is already) and then you can do one of two things:
1. Run the hp-setup wizard
2. Go into Printers in System Settings and choose your printer
This has always worked flawlessly on previous machines I've had with Kubuntu 13.x and 14.04 on laptops. Now this is 14.04 on this desktop and it's just not working. It shows in System Settings/Printers that the Laserjet P1005 is installed, but it won't print. The print job goes to the print spool, but nothing prints. The printer is plugged into a USB port that I know works.
In System Settings/Printers I tried removing the printer and then purging HPLIP (sudo apt-get remove --purge hplip) and then reinstalling and then choosing my printer from the list. No dice. Still won't print. Then I tried removing it again and running the hp-setup wizard, but that won't even run. I ran it from the command line and got this:
I've purged and reinstalled HPLIP several times so I don't get why it's missing anything. I did try running hp-setup with the -i parameter added and still didn't have any luck. I'm at my wits end and would appreciate any suggestions.
Btw, this is a USB-based printer. It is not wireless.
1. Run the hp-setup wizard
2. Go into Printers in System Settings and choose your printer
This has always worked flawlessly on previous machines I've had with Kubuntu 13.x and 14.04 on laptops. Now this is 14.04 on this desktop and it's just not working. It shows in System Settings/Printers that the Laserjet P1005 is installed, but it won't print. The print job goes to the print spool, but nothing prints. The printer is plugged into a USB port that I know works.
In System Settings/Printers I tried removing the printer and then purging HPLIP (sudo apt-get remove --purge hplip) and then reinstalling and then choosing my printer from the list. No dice. Still won't print. Then I tried removing it again and running the hp-setup wizard, but that won't even run. I ran it from the command line and got this:
Code:
Copyright (c) 2001-13 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: HPLIP is not installed properly or is installed without graphical support. Please reinstall HPLIP warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed. error: hp-setup requires GUI support (try running with --qt3). Also, try using interactive (-i) mode. tom@tom-ThinkCentre-M58p:/usr/bin$
Btw, this is a USB-based printer. It is not wireless.
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