Cant get my hp printer to work

[Fabio Kullock]

I have an HP Deskjet D1360 and i cant get it to work. Using the steps found on to http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html, i tried the following:

"# rpm -qa hplip"
hplip-2.8.12-6.fc10.x86_64 (mine is 64 bits fedora)

# hp-setup

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.12)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 8.0

Copyright (c) 2001-8 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) mode.

What does this mean? how can i get it to work?

[stoat]

Hello Fabio Kullock,

I don't really know what went wrong with hpsetup there. Sorry. But I can tell you this, FWIW. That hpsetup thing is a graphic applet and has several dependencies required for it to work such as the Qt and PyQt things mentioned in your post (among others).

But did you know that you don't necessarily have to use the hpsetup part of that whole thing anyway? When you installed hplip, it brought along various other dependent packages including the drivers which are what you really want for your printer. You can probably now use the Gnome printer setup applet found somewhere in your panel menus to set up the printer. It will probably find the driver and the printer now. In fact, I stopped installing hplip and only install hpijs which is the driver package my hp printer needs. Then I use the printer configuration applet in my desktop environment (I use XFCE; you may be using Gnome; it will be similar). Anyway.

No promises for any of this, of course. I am not a printing expert. If you just want to (or have to) use hpsetup to configure you printer, then maybe someone else will have a suggestion for that. One idea is to uninstall it and re-install it from the normal Fedora repos. It's in there, you know.

[steelaworkn]

Hello Fabio Kullock,

I don't really know what went wrong with hpsetup there. Sorry. But I can tell you this, FWIW. That hpsetup thing is a graphic applet and has several dependencies required for it to work such as the Qt and PyQt things mentioned in your post (among others).

But did you know that you don't necessarily have to use the hpsetup part of that whole thing anyway? When you installed hplip, it brought along various other dependent packages including the drivers which are what you really want for your printer. You can probably now use the Gnome printer setup applet found somewhere in your panel menus to set up the printer. It will probably find the driver and the printer now. In fact, I stopped installing hplip and only install hpijs which is the driver package my hp printer needs. Then I use the printer configuration applet in my desktop environment (I use XFCE; you may be using Gnome; it will be similar). Anyway.

No promises for any of this, of course. I am not a printing expert. If you just want to (or have to) use hpsetup to configure you printer, then maybe someone else will have a suggestion for that. One idea is to uninstall it and re-install it from the normal Fedora repos. It's in there, you know.

Exactly. And I didn't know this. Take a read on the web site. It just may be in the fedora packaging. You could do a yum list hplip* for a list of packages.

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html

[marcrblevins]

I'm confused as well, hp-setup should work.
Try it again.
Full command:

su -
yum install hplip hplip-gui libsane-hpaio cups
hp-setup

Added cups just in case Fedora install didn't do that.

[JohnVV]

never did like the " hplip-gui" . why don't you use the browser interface
when you are reading this just click on ( and then bookmark this link)
http://localhost:631/
and you can setup the cups hp printer there

[cyclonecj2]

Im trying to get this printer to scan photo pictures??? It will print pages off the internet ie google maps ect. but when I put a picture under the cover and press scan nothing happens????? CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cyclonecj2@tds.net also please explain to me as simple as possible... : )

[JohnVV]

for fc 6 you are pretty much out of luck
support for 6 ENDED on " December 8, 2007 "
you will need to find the old unsupported rpm's from the mostly dead repo's
dose "sane" see the scanner? ( installing that fill be " fun " - see above)
you could see if hp has a cups/sane driver ( for your very old version of cups) on there website

dose cups see the printer/scanner from http://localhost:631/

[cyclonecj2]

no, it tells me to restart then when up, nothing.... however in my applications it shows HP device manager, I click on that and nothing.... UGH!!

[JohnVV]

?? http://localhost:631/ tells you to restart???
or is sane telling you to restart ???
none of them should be doing that

WHAT is telling you to restart ?

support for Fedora 6 ENDED on " December 8, 2007 "

[marcrblevins]

Please show:

su -
rpm -qa | grep sane

Deal with John's advice first. Update to Fedora 10 then show me the grep sane results.

[cyclonecj2]

direct me to fedora 10 is it easy to install? with it recognize hp 750xi printer?? Im new to linux... ; ) Thanks

[marcrblevins]

Get Fedora
http://fedoraproject.org

Your printer is supported if you have hplip 0.9.5:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/psc.html

Can you provide:

yum info hplip


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[cyclonecj2]

Ive been to that page already, in my terminal it says to replug printer or restart computer?? so Ive tried both and nothing....
Im very frustrated!!! Cant this be easy!!!!

[marcrblevins]

replug printer or restart computer

What is giving you this message?

Really need more details, like are you using localhost:631, or hp-setup, etc.

[JohnVV]

in my terminal it says to replug printer or restart computer??
WHAT program are you running that is telling you that ?