Debian 12. HP Laserjet Professional P1606dn
If it prints at all, it prints the top inch of the test page or just random binary. I have tried the recommended driver, the driverless driver, the Generic PCL 4/5 driver, the Generic PCL 6 driver. And probably others I am not remembering.
I am trying to print over Ethernet, but I am about to drag the printer over near my desk and print via USB.
Fortunately, I don’t have actual critical printing to do right now and I am only setting up a printer after installing Debian 12. BTW this means it is a fresh install of Debian 12 too.
I have been helpdesk support at a data center. I would not consider myself a dummy, but this is getting ridiculous. A task that should have taken all of 10 minutes has taken over 2 hours so far.
How are we ever going to get “The Year of Linux on the Desktop” if simple printing is and continues to be such a pain?
That was worse - the test page failed with “filter failed”, went back to “Generic PCL Laser Printer”, and was able to print a full Debian test page again.
Did you use hplip over USB or Ethernet? It might not be meant for use over USB.
I am using “Generic PCL laserprinter” and it seems to be working well enough now.
Have you installed the plugin within
hplip, or rather, the hplip-GUI program? Have you removed the old printer from CUPS before trying?I don’t really understand the CUPS web interface at localhost:[cups port] but I am removing the printer from the control panel and ensuring it disappeared over a reboot. I installed the hplip package using apt. I don’t know if it brought a GUI along with it. I have been interacting with things using the settings app.
What settings app?
hp-toolboxis the program to use (which might in your applications menu as “HP Device Manager”), alternativelyhp-setupto set it up from the CLI.“settings” in KDE, the icon is two slider controls.