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Need help connecting to a HP Photosmart C5100 on a home network.

Asked by TeaMan on 2007-09-11

I am very new to UBUNTU and I am trying to connect to a HP Photosmart C5100 printer that is a node on my home network. I downloaded the HPLIP self extracting file, but can't figure out how to load it. I checked to see if I already have HPLIP set up and I do. I have version 1.7.3 and need 1.6.9, so I should be OK. I tried to run hp-setup and get the following message.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.3)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 4.5

Copyright (c) 2001-7 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: PyQt not installed. GUI not available. Exiting.
error: PyQt init failed. Reverting to interactive mode.
error: No devices found.
error: Error occured during interactive mode. Exiting.

I'm not sure what to do to make this work.

Can anyone help?

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Last query:: 2007-09-11

Last reply:: 2007-09-11

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said on 2007-09-11:

It's much easier than that. Just open system -> admin -> printing and double click add printer. Follow the wizard. HP is probably one of the best options for a printer in Linux.

Check here for some step by step instructions and info

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HpAllInOne

I didn't do the "sudo hp-setup" part. I just did it the "gnome way". Worked perfectly.

Let me know if you have other questions.