HP Deskjet D1320 not listed

THE Ralfinator · #1 25th December 2006, 03:31 AM

I'm trying to install a new printer, HP Deskjet D1320, and the Printer Configuration thing recognized that it was a USB Deskjet D1300 Series, but not a single printer in that series is listed in the list that next comes up. How do I know which driver to choose, or is this printer not supported by Linux?

b_martinez · #2 25th December 2006, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by THE Ralfinator

I'm trying to install a new printer, HP Deskjet D1320, and the Printer Configuration thing recognized that it was a USB Deskjet D1300 Series, but not a single printer in that series is listed in the list that next comes up. How do I know which driver to choose, or is this printer not supported by Linux?

It should be supported. Use the hplip drivers for it. The hplip come from a colllaboration between HP and the Linux Inkjet Printing project. Setup will be for the D1300 series ,since the differences in the 1300s are incorporated into the drivers. You have to be in "Administrator mode" in the configuration utility, but not in / [root] mode to get there. You will also need to ensure that the hplip, and snmp daemons are running in the services. (Start>Administration>Server Settings>Services in KDE, not "Applications" or "Places" in Gnome, but the 3rd on, then "Administration>Server Settings [or Settings]>Services" (I think that's the daisy chain to it).
The driver's site/setup link from HP or hplip links at sourceforge ought to handle any question you have about it.
hth
Bill

edit: come to think on it, I was wanting a 1350 a few years back, because it was well supported on Linux. Got a 1610 instead, just when hplip was being released.

THE Ralfinator · #3 25th December 2006, 03:58 PM

Okay, I started the hplip daemon in services, but i cant find anything about snmp. What exactly is it for? Is it for sharing the printer? I googled it and it seems its some network protocol or something. Thanks for the answer, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!

b_martinez · #4 26th December 2006, 04:54 PM

snmp= simple network management protocol -- from the usage if not exactly the true name. HPLIP uses this to manage the printer, it's part of the needed [dependencies] packages.
SYSTEM>ADMINISTRATION>SERVICES to see if you have it running.
hth
Bill

THE Ralfinator · #5 26th December 2006, 09:45 PM

Thank you so much for your help, b_martinez. What I ended up doing was yum remove hplip, and then I compiled from source the Hplip driver from sourceforge.net. Having the newest drivers was exactly what I needed, and my printer now works! The only thing I need to do now is make the margins a little bigger, as some things get a little bit of them cut off from the page. I love the way HP decided to support Linux! It's awesome!

b_martinez · #6 27th December 2006, 01:00 AM

You are very welcome. Glad to be of assistance.
[HP is all I'll buy,simply because of this.]
Bill

THE Ralfinator · #7 27th December 2006, 01:54 PM

Hey all, last night (after I was so excited that HP supported Linux) I HAD to go to my friend's house and see if I could set up his Photosmart 8250. He already had Hplip version 1.6.10 I think. ( I guess FC6 is a little ahead of FC5 as far as that goes.) We were able to print a test page to it, using hp-setup to setup the printer. But the problem is that we were simply getting a whole lot of nonsense getting printed the first three lines, and then a blank page, and then it kept doing the same thing over and over to all the sheets it had. So then I tried to go to localhost:631 to try and see if i could do anything with the Cups interface, but instead I got redirected to http://p2p.cs.mu.oz.au/software/Localhost/. So anyone got any ideas?

b_martinez · #8 27th December 2006, 02:20 PM

Get into the setup and make sure there is no banner or other stuff it's trying to print. Also , make sure it is not listed multiple times, using different drivers.
Bill

THE Ralfinator · #9 28th December 2006, 02:05 AM

Okay, I'll check that next time I'm at his house. Any ideas as to why the CUPS server page won't show up?

b_martinez · #10 30th December 2006, 04:32 AM

2 days late checking back in. My apologies for leaving you hanging. localhost:631 (is that the address) is likely why the HPLIP driver needs snmp. Did that get installed? Is it enabled in system services?
Those are the only 2 reasons I could think of.
hth
Bill

THE Ralfinator · #11 3rd January 2007, 10:42 PM

Okay, I checked snmpd in services, and it wasnt running. I turned it on, and some other thing that had snmp in it, and set them both to start automatically, but even after that I couldnt connect to localhost:631. Kinda confusing.........