HPLIp for Debian 12

There are adapted hplip packages for all current Debian releases in the Debian repositories, see https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hplip

Hi, hplip version 3.23.8 on Debian 12 requires python3-dbus.mainloop.qt and python3-pyqt4 but these packages are not available on Debian 12.

There is HPLIP version 3.22.10+dfsg0-2 for Debian 12 in *.deb format in the Debian repositories, to be installed with apt-get.

I succeed in building the driver hplip 3.23.12 on Debian11 from the .run package I download here: https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/gethplip

But I did not succeed in building it for Debian12 whatever adaptations I made on the installer
(refer to my old post where I explane how to get rid of the installer limitation with python packages under debian and how to add a new distro version to the installer, here : https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/452076)

To make my new printer OfficeJet PRO 9012e work correctly under Debian12 , (hplip 3.22 do not provide all features correctly, specially scanning recto-verso and auto selecting paper format)
And as I didn't succeed with hplip 3.23.12 under debian12 I did use he embed package 'system-config-printer' of debian 12 and 'simple-scan' package
Under system-config-printer I edit the printer after selecting it with its IP address and I did use the ppd file I get in the ppd directory of hplip 3.23.12 tarball as it driver (so it use hplip 3.23.12 ppd).

Since, the printer is working very fine (recto/verso printing, scaling, fast printing, etc...) it's nicely integrated in the Gnome Desktop (Wayland) and 'simple-scan' detect an eSCL scanner from the printer (eSCL is driverless scaning under MacOS and Linux) with the multicast hostname of my scanning printer
It perfectly scan recto-verso without need to resize all pages.
After testing the scan of an 100 recto-verso pages document using this methode, everything was perfect and no need to make change on focus or to resize pages before generating the PDF from the raw scanned image.

I think this workaround could help people who have a very recent printer that oldest hplip releases don't own the driver (or the full feature driver - ppd file)

To proceed :
sudo apt update
sudo apt install system-config-printer simple-scan wget
wget -O ./hplip-3.23.12.tar.gz https://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/3.23.12/hplip-3.23.12.tar.gz/download
tar -zxf hplip-3.23.12.tar.gz

Now add printer in system-config-printer (network printer and specify it's IP address)
follow the process and when it ask to provide a ppd, you must select the ppd for your printer model from the tarball you've just extract :
./hplip-3.23.12/ppd/

Sure I prefer make the original hplip-3.23.12 driver working from HP installer or tarball but I did spend more than 1 day trying to make it work with no success but I was needed to use the printer and scanner so I find this workaround and it's working perfectly

Kind regards
nbanba