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HP Laserjet 1020 will not print

Asked by Tom

I thought I had this problem solved earlier but discovered I didn't. I have a HP 5550 which works fine. I recently added a HP Laserjet 1020 which worked right away. I later printed a color picture from my 5550 and now cannot print with my HP 1020. When I send a print job to the printer, the print window disappears but there are no print jobs listed for the printer. I have tried to install all packages related to Foo2zjs which didn't help. I have also deleted the printer and reinstalled it to no avail. Any suggestions? Thanks

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Tom (tom60ish) said : 		#1

I believe, once again I have solved this problem. I went to http://stepien.com.pl/2006/09/23/install-your-hp-laserjet-1020-on-ubuntu/
and followed his instructions that are:

Install your HP LaserJet 1020 on Ubuntu

Here you’ve got a short and reliable method of installing HP LaserJet 1020 on Ubuntu (and as far as I know Debian). Works perfectly. No further configuration required.

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf foo2zjs.tar.gz
$ cd foo2zjs
$ sudo make uninstall
$ make
$ ./getweb 1020
$ sudo make install install-hotplug cups

Now I must admit I didn't have a clue of what I was doing in Terminal but this so far has seemed to work for me. I can use both printers. I hope this helps someone else.

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Best Tom (tom60ish) said : 		#2

Thanks go out to the community.

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Mart Pike (sbskla) said : 		#3

HP Laserjet 1020 was working fine on Ubuntu 8.04, then stopped working (pages that are sent to the print queue no longer get printed). Checked all connections, printer just sits there displaying green LED as if all was fine. Here the debug info from 'Printing Troubleshooter'. Would appreciate any advice on how to get it going again -- Mart

Page 1 (Choose printer):
{'cups_dest': <cups.Dest object at 0x8719080>,
 'cups_instance': None,
 'cups_queue': 'HP_LaserJet_1020',
 'cups_queue_listed': True}
Page 2 (Check printer sanity):
{'cups_device_uri_scheme': u'hp',
 'cups_printer_dict': {'device-uri': u'hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1020?serial=FN0FPWS',
                       'printer-info': u'Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1020',
                       'printer-is-shared': True,
                       'printer-location': u'',
                       'printer-make-and-model': u'HP LaserJet 1020 Foomatic/foo2zjs (recommended)',
                       'printer-state': 3,
                       'printer-state-message': u'',
                       'printer-state-reasons': [u'none'],
                       'printer-type': 167940,
                       'printer-uri-supported': u'ipp://localhost:631/printers/HP_LaserJet_1020'},
 'is_cups_class': False}
Page 3 (Printer state reasons):
{'printer-state-message': '', 'printer-state-reasons': 'none'}
Page 4 (Print test page):
{'test_page_attempted': True,
 'test_page_job_id': [48],
 'test_page_job_status': [(48, 'HP_LaserJet_1020', 'Test Page')],
 'test_page_successful': False}
Page 5 (Printer state reasons):
{'printer-state-message': '', 'printer-state-reasons': 'none'}