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Earlier when I run Ubuntu 12.04, It prompts to install printer on detecting by XTerm (It automatically download and configures hplip) and my hp-laserjet working fine on Ubuntu 12.04.

Now, I am running Ubuntu 14.04 (Installed form DVD). When I plugged printer, XTerm doesn't prompts so, I manually configured as following.


1. Open printer setting. It detects my Hp Laser Jet P1007

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2. It Auto configured correctly and ask to print test page

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3. But It not prints test-page. Also not-printing anything and says job completed!

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Though It detected & configured properly but not printing.

Details from local-host:localhost

How to solve It?

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  • Try looking at the cups web interface at localhost:631 and making sure your printer is the default printer and is enabled.
    – bain
    May 13, 2014 at 12:47
  • @bain : I also added details from localhost:631.
    – Pandya
    May 13, 2014 at 13:55
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    And this previously worked in 12.04 - exactly the same computer, printer, USB port etc.? Did you run hp-setup after installing 14.04?
    – bain
    May 13, 2014 at 15:54

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You need to run hp-setup after installing Ubuntu 14.04.

hp-setup Installs HPLIP printers and faxes in the CUPS spooler. Tries to automatically determine the correct PPD file to use. Allows the printing of a testpage. Performs basic fax parameter setup.

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  • If I remember well, I tried to use hp-setup (amongst others) to get my HP LaserJet 1020 to reliably print in 14.04, but had to give up and buy an HP LaserJet Professional P1102, which works flawlessly. (In case someone wonders why I didn't buy the wireless model: because I don't like electromagnetic pollution.)
    – Walter Tross
    Oct 12, 2014 at 13:29
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    You may need to run sudo apt-get install hplip-dbg hplip-gui before running hp-setup
    – mac
    Dec 1, 2014 at 11:45
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Run hp-setup, then if the problem still persists follow these steps, too:

  1. Go to http://localhost:631/, then go to "Printers", there your printer will be listed under queue name, click it.

  2. Click "Administration" drop down menu

  3. Select "set allowed users"

  4. Type in your computer "username" and "select allow these users to print" and click "Set allowed Users".

I successfully got the printer running using these steps in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

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I had the same problem in Ubuntu 17.04 and Hp Laser Jet P1006 but neither installing by localhost:631 or setting "allowed users" nor using printers part of Ubuntu system tools helped me.
But I fixed the problem by removing printer in system tools > printers and running hp-setup -i that is an interface for "hplip".
By hp-setup -i setting up a new printer would be easy and without problem.
I added my new printer by using hp-setup -i steps and in final step it asked me for test print and then everything worked great.

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All drivers with ljet4 sufix should work, you just have to find the right one. This should work for other printers too. In my company I had problems until I found out that few drivers works for all printer. I wrote large text about drivers solution here. I tried it on most of Ubuntu versions.

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