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Printer Setting in Ubuntu via hplip

If you have a HP printer at your office or at your home and if you are a vivid user of Ubuntu, then you definitely might have tried to install the printer driver for the same.

I have been trying to do that for a couple of years! Alas but things didn't worked for me, mainly because of the fact that hp doesn't provide drivers for the printer in the cds, but rather asks to use a utility called hplip (an abbreviation for HP Linux Imaging and Printing).

For one thing in Ubuntu one can install hplip using the package manager apt. You can install hplip using this command in an Ubuntu Box.

sudo apt-get install hplip-gui

After successful installation of hplip, one can run the program hplip form command line by the command hp-setup.

The first window looks like this, where-in one have to select the type of connection with the printer. I have a network printer attached, hence I optionally selected to input the IP address of the printer.


After hplip has obtained the information from the printer, it will prompt with the second screen.  Here, one can select his/her printer from the available printers.



The next screen, will ask user to get plug-in file from Internet as the recommended solution, and this was the point where I used to get stuck for the past one year!!! and couldn't get the plug-in file the hplip sites. But today, I got the link for the plug-in file.

Now, from this point onwards, the installed will ask for your permission for downloading the plug-in file, a file with an extension ".run". If you are behind a proxy, it will complain about the Internet connectivity. But no worries...

Go to this webpage, and search for your printer model number and download the particular file with a ".run" extension.

Proceed to the get plug-in file form local directory option, and point it to the file just now downloaded, and voilà! Things are done.

Just to be sure, try to print the 'beautiful' printer test page of Ubuntu, and it will be done spotlessly.



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