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my hp laserjet printer 1020,is not working in new ubuntu 11.10,it asking a new drive to printer.

Asked by venkatesh on 2011-10-17

my hp laserjet printer 1020,is not working in new ubuntu 11.10,it asking a new drive to printer.

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2011-10-19
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2011-10-19
makafsal (makafsal) said : #1

In new ubuntu we can't use the old drive so you should install hplip.
Try this in terminal
sudo hp-setup

And refer this page
hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/downloads.html
From this page you can know about hplip. Then download , install it.

thx

venkatesh (nitheesh2102) said : #2

i try it. it shows,like this in terminal, & i also downloaded from the hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/downloads.html. it download but not opening.

what is the next step.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.11.7)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0

Copyright (c) 2001-9 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.

warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed.
error: hp-setup requires GUI support (try running with --qt3). Also, try using interactive (-i)

delance (olivier-delance) said : #3

In a terminal , run
    sudo apt-get install hplip
You will get the latest HP driver present in Ubuntu repository.
If you want the latest from HP (if Ubuntu's one is older), you need to download something names hplip.deb

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