HP Laserjet 1018 problem

Obscenity · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:57 am Post subject: HP Laserjet 1018 problem

Hi,
I have a problem, I cannot solve. It's like this: I used to have a HP deskjet 920C printer, which worked fine. Then it stopped. Maybe it's because I use ~x86, and thins often get broken

I can't help it ... It feels good to have the latest software.

Anyway, now I bought a hp laserjet 1018 and decided it's time to fix this printnig problem. So here it goes:

Cups detects the printer, and it says it's printing just fine.

A couple of lines from /var/log/cups/error_log:

batistuta · Veteran Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 1384 Location: Aachen

can root cat to /dev/usb/lp0 ?

Obscenity · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject:

As root I can cat to /dev/usb/lp0, but nothing gets printed. I've also noticed the system won't even boot up with the printer pluged in :S
Now sometimes when I plug it in it makes a sound ... but mostly it's just dead ...
Hplip doesn't detect it. Cups stopped seeing it too ...

Obscenity

I've sort of fixed it

It's important to notice the little red text on this site.

batistuta · Veteran Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 1384 Location: Aachen

how strange.... have you checked versions?

reyneke

batistuta · Veteran Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 1384 Location: Aachen

What is the symptom? Are you able to start cups web interface? Is cups started (/etc/init.d/cups status)?
Do you get a list of printers, even if yours is not in there?

Obscenity · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:28 am Post subject:

I had problems with it's detection too. Make sure your USB is working, and try having the printer connected and on during boot.
It' was weird for me too ...

This is an ugly hack that just might work for you (it worked for me ...), when lsusb showed the printer ... sort of, and CUPS didn't detect it, I just added a printer with the following device uri:

reyneke · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:26 am Post subject:

hmmm ... doesn't seem to work for me. This is what my syslog sais when i plug in the printer:

Obscenity · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:40 am Post subject:

Here is the ppd that worked for me: http://www.kiberpipa.org/~ces/HP-LaserJet_1018.ppd
I hope it helps.

reyneke · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject:

OK, I was able to create a printer device via the web interface using your ppd-file. But still it won't print. Funny enough, if I use kprinter to create the device and load up the ppd-file, it gives me an error (stack overflow in line 120).

Maybe my kernel configuration for USB-2.0 cause the problem. I use gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r8 with the following options:

Ginta · Apprentice Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 153 Location: Spain

I know this thread is a bit old, but I hit this issue too today.
I could solve by deleting, powering off, powering on, and readding (to cups via web interface).
I don't know what's the core to this issue, but after the firmware is loaded, I end up with lots of:
usb 2-2: usb timed out on ep0in len=0/1023
in my /var/log/messages file

Though it is not that important, it is a bit annoying having to delete and recreate printer every time you reboot.. any hint which (and where) could be the bug?
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dinvlad · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2007 Posts: 28

Same issue here

After upgrading cups to 1.4.1 i'm no longer able to access my usb printer

I tried to delete it and then 'find new printers' via cups web interface, but i get the message 'no printers found..'

jfp · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:37 pm Post subject:

I have an HP LaserJet 1018, which I rarely (read never) connect to my gentoo laptop. However, seeing this thread pop up in the forums made me wonder if mine still worked. I know it used to. So I plugged the printer into my laptop and found that it was not working...

poly_poly-man · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject:

I have a similar printer (p1006 - it's zjstream). I simply plugged it in, ran hplip setup (it downloaded the binary driver), and watched it automatically set up properly.
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jfp · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject:

I tried to use the hplip hp-setup as well, but had problems regarding the ppd file. I admit that I didn't try very hard to debug that, but it sure seems like hplip should work as well if you have (or can find) the correct ppd.
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armstrong360 · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 39

Just a note I tried using th hplip method of installing the printer driver with no success. I followed the dependancy list but rebelled at install qt4. Even though the package claims that you can disable qt4 (./configure --help) It would always fail part way through installation note having found pkit ( I don't know what that is)

I found this thread and decide to try it. http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ It worked flawlessly ( I did have to remove and re-install the printer in cups) and to delete teh extra udev rules that we laying around.