hp laserjet 1020 won't work in Ubuntu 14.04

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy hplip

Thanks

Please use this installation procedure instead:

https://mark911.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/how-to-install-printer-drivers-for-hp-laserjet-1020-in-ubuntu-14-04-lts-without-needing-access-to-openprinting-org-website/

Unfortunately, that procedure doesn't work.

The output of
lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy hplip

is

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux raffi-X550EA 3.16.0-50-generic #66~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 10 17:05:00 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
hplip:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.14.3-0ubuntu3.4
  Version table:
     3.14.3-0ubuntu3.4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.14.3-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Hello,

Which way did you install your printer?

I suggest you ckeck if you have the hplip package. You find it in the software center (or if you have unity, I think also in the launcher).

The developers site is http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html

There is a very long list of supported printers and I found yours in the list, so I'm pretty sure it will work for you.

Good luck
Enrico

http://www.anisor.ch

Hi!
I've tried hplip several times, different versions, including the latest version, including uninstalling and then reinstalling hplip and it hasn't worked. i've read that hplip is buggy, sorry i can't find the link to that statement.

i was hoping that this alternative offered by Mark Rijckenberg would work; and it hasn't. I see that in the comments on the page he posted that it has worked for others...

HPlip did work for me when I had a previous version of Ubuntu (version 13, i believe).

If you tell what problem you got for Mark's installation instructions, this might give a hint where to dig further.

The problem I have is that it simply doesn't print. It doesn't even print a test page...It just pends or "processing"

Is there any additional information I could provide that might help people to troubleshoot this?

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I remove foo2zjs and re-installed it and still didn't print.

At the next to last line -
after typing system-config-printer the printer window opens and I see an icon for the hp laserjet. however, terminal then just has a blinking cursor and there is no command prompt. so i opened a separate window and typed the last two commands

 # check /var/log/syslog for any errors related to foo2zjs driver:

and

 tail /var/log/syslog

the output for tail /var/log/syslog is

Jan 4 21:08:10 raffi-X550EA kernel: [ 272.245983] usblp0: removed
Jan 4 21:08:10 raffi-X550EA kernel: [ 272.258157] usblp 5-2:1.0: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x2B17
Jan 4 21:08:13 raffi-X550EA /etc/hotplug/usb/hplj1020: foo2zjs: loading HP LaserJet 1020 firmware /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1020.dl to /dev/usb/lp0 ...
Jan 4 21:08:13 raffi-X550EA /etc/hotplug/usb/hplj1020: foo2zjs: ... download successful.
Jan 4 21:08:15 raffi-X550EA kernel: [ 277.266250] usblp0: removed
Jan 4 21:13:17 raffi-X550EA dbus[728]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' (using servicehelper)
Jan 4 21:13:17 raffi-X550EA kernel: [ 579.419768] systemd-hostnamed[3178]: Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname might make it unresolveable. Please install nss-myhostname!
Jan 4 21:13:17 raffi-X550EA dbus[728]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.hostname1'
Jan 4 21:13:37 raffi-X550EA dbus[728]: [system] Activating service name='org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechanism' (using servicehelper)
Jan 4 21:13:37 raffi-X550EA dbus[728]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechanism'

and the output for lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy hplip is

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux raffi-X550EA 3.16.0-50-generic #66~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 10 17:05:00 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
hplip:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.14.3-0ubuntu3.4
  Version table:
     3.14.3-0ubuntu3.4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.14.3-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

The printer properties list the device URI as usb://Unknown/Printer
and when i do a printer job it lists it as Processing - Sending data to printer.

any way you can help???

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