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How to install HP K80 with Dapper Drake

Asked by Alwin Stupp

Running Dapper Drake with XP in parallel. Dapper Drake runs fine but printing is a problem. Dapper Drake System recognices HP K80 printer. Recommended printer
program HPLIP 0.9.7. Program selected . Sending testpage to printer.....but nothing happens.
Under "hplip.siourceforge.net/install/manual/manual/distros/ubuntu/.html" found page "HP Linux Imaging and Printing. Downloaded "HPLIP 1.7.4a.run" to my desktop.
Followed the shown instruction steps 1 to 5. In between I enabled univers and multivers repositories. Console ended with: My username ubuntu :~$ . Thats it. But I
cannot open HPLIP 1.7....Prompt reads something like "home>username> desktop>hplip 1.1.4a.run could not be opend. The character coding could not be identified.
Make sure that you are not trying to open with a binary file. " Displayed coding is "UTF 8".

However, ubuntu continues refusing to recognise "HPLIP 1.7.4a.run" and to print the Testpage.

As a newby to ubuntu I feel totally lost. Maybe sombody is willing to help.......would highly appreciate....

Alwin

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Best Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#1

Hello,

hplip is already installed by default on Dapper, you don't need to download or install anything.

Because you installed a newer version of hplip, you should go back to the version supported by ubuntu, please type this in a terminal:
sudo apt-get remove hplip
sudo apt-get install hplip

Then the default method to install HP printers on Dapper is here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HpPrinterInstallationAndMaintenanceDapper

You can ask other questions here if that don't solve your problem.

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Alwin Stupp (stupp-nackenheim) said : 		#2

Thanks Hanusz leszek, that solved my question.

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Alwin Stupp (stupp-nackenheim) said : 		#3

Although, on console level , I got the massage that something was critical with the X-server. Despite I continued to follow the instuctions of the page you recommended.
And all of a sudden the testpage was printed. Now it is working paralell to XP. That's
great fun, many , many thanks for your support...

have a nice weekend

Alwin