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how can I get a ppd for hp1006

Asked by madavis

I have down loaded hplip 2.8.5 and hp2.8.2 and cannot find the ppd for hp 1006
HELP please

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Please only install one hplip at a time. So if you have installed both 2.8.5 and 2.8.2 remove them both and install hplip 2.8.5, usually running: rm -rf /usr/share/hplip will remove hplip. Then once hplip 2.8.5 is installed run

hp-check -t

and post the output.

Aaron

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madavis (mary-davisgraphics) said : 		#2

Aaron
I tired to unload and I guess it never really installed
So Iwent to install and said I was missing a jpeg option
I tried to download and it said there was a conflict
So I have given up and I am returning the printer
Thank you for your response

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

Settings to solved.
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Theo Kramer (tkramer3) said : 		#4

You don't need a ppd. Download hplip from the hp site. Make it runnable with chmod +x as root. Run it, a directory is created with the files you need. If you run ubuntu or debian, install packages python-qt4 libcupsimage2 libcupsimage2-dev libcupsys2 libcupsys2-dev, hp-setup depends on this but is not capable of installing them.

After installing this, hp-setup can be launched. hp-setup has a gui, but it has to be run as root, you have to set a display, or in kde use a launcher and set advanced option "run as different user" to root.

After launching this, the printer installs (downloading a proprietary plugin) and creates a Cups printer. After this, in my case it complained about foomatic-rip-hplip filter not found.
I had to make a symbolic link:
ln -s /usr/bin/foomatic-rip foomatic-rip-hplip
in /usr/lib/cups/filter to correct this.

Hope it helps