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HP Laserjet P 1102w basic driver

Asked by Janos G. Komaromi

Is there a basic driver for 1102W that enables printing and does not require plugin? I have an old Fedora 3 distro incompatible with the latest HPLIP but a new printer. All I need is a basic driver without bells and whistles, i.e. enhanced capabilities.

Thanks, janos

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goutam kodu (goutam-hplip) said : 		#1

Hi Janos,

Plugin is must for this printer for printing. If you can let us know which version of CUPS is installed in your OS i can help you with installing HPLIP and plugin.

You can check the cups version either from "cups-config --version" command or from cups UI "localhost:631" in web-browser.

Thanks,
Goutam

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Janos G. Komaromi (jankom) said : 		#2

Hi Goutam,

Thank you for your quick and constructive response. Here is my situation:

My FC3 distro is all mangled up, but I like it the way I customized: twm window manager, all may applications compiled from source. The kernel is 2.6.20, compiled by myself and adopted to my motherboard capability. I got stuck when I tried to go to newer kernel: I ran into the new udev architecture. So I stopped there. It was good for me to learn a lot about linux.

I also have an Xubuntu current installation on my 2nd hard drive, and the new HP printer works there well.

But I still would like to print from my FC3. Is there a way?

My cups (complied from source) is 1.4.6. I compiled hplip 2.6.12 from source. It compiled OK, but hp-setup does not find the new P1102w printer on the wireless. So I tried to compile hplip 3.13.9 from source, but ran into configure issues. Specifically, libudev or something like that was the obstacle. This is when I posted my question on this launchpad.

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goutam kodu (goutam-hplip) said : 		#3

Hi Janos,

Can you provide us the configure command output ?
 HPLIP depends on certain dependent packages. I am not sure if all those dependencies are met. For more info you can check the manual installation installations link http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/fedora_core.html.

Thanks,
Goutam

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Janos G. Komaromi (jankom) said : 		#4

Thank you, Goutam, for getting back to me. Yes, it is dependency: libusb, and finally libudev. I gave up and found another solution.

SOLUTION - how to make HP Laserjet Professional P 1102W work on older machines:

Removed HP-lip (was 2.8.12) - but this is only for house cleaning. I also removed cups that I updated in the process trying to make my new printer work.

Compiled cups 1.4.6,
recompiled Ghostscript 9.0.2, foomatic-filters 4.0.6, and
compiled foo2zjs.

Now the printer works from my old, mangled, bastardized FC3 linux, and I'm happy.

I also installed Windows Postscript drivers on the same old FC3 machine (cups and samba), and now my old W200 Dell laptop and an even older W95 desktop machine (that I hardly ever turn on) can print to the brand new HP Laserjet P 1102w using the linux machine as print server.

It is fair to say that the printer installed flawlessly on my W7 Acer laptop or on xubuntu 12.04 using hp-plugin.

Janos