USB printer works only with one notebook

Question

I have an HP LaserJet P1005. Printer is connected by USB and configured with hplib driver. I have to notebooks running Ubuntu.

Notebook A

• Ubuntu 10.10
• After connecting printer is doing some initialization work
• Printing works without problems

Notebook B

• Ubuntu 11.10
• After connecting printer is quite, no initialization
• No errors in syslog
• Print jobs are send to the printer but printer does not execute the jobs, no error popups or error messages in syslog
• After connecting the printer to notebook A and and back to notebook B printing works fine an notebook B

Can you help me?

Answer 1

After installing the "HPLIP plugin" the printer works:

HPLIP Plugin Download:

• 3.11.10: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web....10-plugin.tar
• 3.11.7 for Ubuntu 11.10: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web...1.7-plugin.tar

To install, extract the tar, make the content executable an run it as root:

tar xvf hplip-3.11.7-plugin.tar
chmod 775 hplip-3.11.7-plugin.run
sudo ./hplip-3.11.7-plugin.run

To configure hplip printers you can also install the HPLIP Gui from the repo, package name is hplip-gui:

sudo aptitude install hplip-gui