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LaurentRueil wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:12 pm

Hello,

I installed CUPS on my Raspberry with Raspbian.
It works well with my HP Deskjet F2480 on USB port.
All my computers Mac/PC/Android/iPhone could print on it.

But my new HP LASER MFP 135a on USB port doesn't work because there is no driver for it.
I tried these drivers
- HP laserjet 500 MFP M525 Postscript
- HP LaserJet 1000, hpcups 3.16.11, requires proprietary plugin
- HP LaserJet 1010 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.11 (grayscale, 2-sided printing)

For the last driver, it works when I print from Win10 a txt file or a simple word file, but when images are inside the doc file, it fails (printed page like an old TV without antena).

On http://www.openprinting.org/drivers , there is no driver for my printer yet.

On HP website https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/se ... l/24494379 , I can find Linux drivers for this printer (Debian, Fedora, Linux, Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu).
With Debian driver, I tried to run install.sh but installer fails after a few lines displayed.
And I not sure this driver could be used by CUPS.

Who could help me?

Best regards

LaurentRueil wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 18, 2020 7:11 pm

Why there is so many different drivers for the same manufacturer?
They don't developpe a new Print protocol every time, I suppose. They just adjust some settings, no?

scruss wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 18, 2020 8:42 pm

LaurentRueil wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 18, 2020 7:11 pm

Why there is so many different drivers for the same manufacturer?
They don't developpe a new Print protocol every time, I suppose. They just adjust some settings, no?

Quite often they do - they'll just put the company name on whichever printer mechanism they can get. It's been that way forever: the original LaserJets and Apple LaserWriters used the Canon CX engine.

Looking on the spec page, the lack of any "Compatibility" entry makes me think this is a WinPrinter - all the rendering is done inside Windows and spit out over USB. It may never work with a Raspberry Pi, sorry.