On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 22:12 +0000, Till Kamppeter wrote: > I hope you are aware of that the HP LaserJet 1020 has no non-volatile > memory to hold its firmware. Everytime when it is turned on a firmware > file needs to be uploaded into the printer before the first job can be > printed. The Upload is simply done by "printing" the file unfiltered > from the computer where the printer is connected to. > > When you turn on the printer your hear its mechanics rotating for a self > check. If the computer is correctly configured for automatic firmware > upload you will hear the mechanics for a second time, telling that the > firmware got uploaded. You will also hear the mechanics rotating one > time when you manually upload the firmware (for example by running the > hp-firmware command). If you send an arbitrary bunch of data instead of > a firmware file, the mechanics will not rotate, so you can distinguish > by the noise whether the printer got valid firmware. So turn on the > printer while the computer is running, and check whether you get noise > two times or when you have the printer already turned on and boot the > computer, you need to get noise from the printer twice before you can > print (once the reset from the USB, after that the firmware upload). > > The hp-doctor output suggests that the proprietary plugin from HP is > installed but at least the files /usr/share/hplip/plugin.spec and > /usr/share/hplip/data/firmware/hp_laserjet_1020.fw.gz are missing. The > latter is the firmware file. > > Please run sudo hp-plugin to re-install the plugin and tell whether this > helps. >
Output of sudo hp-plugin: chris@localhost:~$ sudo hp-plugin HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.15.2) Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1 Copyright (c) 2001-15 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: /usr/share/hplip/plugin.spec file doesn't exists. Checking for network connection... Downloading plug-in from: error: /home/chris/.hplip/hplip-3.15.2-plugin.run file does not match its checksum. File may have been corrupted or altered Done. I do not have /home/chris/.hplip/hplip-3.15.2-plugin.run chris@localhost:~/.hplip$ ls -al total 44 drwxr-xr-x 3 chris chris 4096 Apr 15 17:31 . drwxr-xr-x 100 chris chris 12288 Apr 15 17:33 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 chris chris 4096 Mar 14 09:36 .gnupg -rw-r----- 1 chris chris 13321 Apr 15 07:58 hp-doctor.log -rw-rw-rw- 1 chris chris 544 Apr 15 07:58 hplip.conf -rw-r----- 1 chris chris 0 Apr 15 07:49 hp-systray.lock -rw-r----- 1 chris chris 0 Mar 14 17:38 hp-toolbox.lock -rw-r----- 1 chris chris 71 Apr 15 07:55 hp-upgrade.log Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11°N 97.89°W (Elev. 1092 ft) 17:31:36 up 7 days, 1:09, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.15, 0.14 Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS, kernel 4.0.0-997-generic #201503310205 SMP Tue Mar 31 02:07:04 UTC 2015 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1428356 Title: 03f0:2b17 USB HP LaserJet 1020 printer will not print after boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1428356/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
