CUPS : missing driver for HP Laser MFP 135a

[LaurentRueil]

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

[fruitoftheloom]

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

The Debian Driver is for x86 CPU Architecture machines running Linux..

...the RPi is ARM CPU Architecture.


Unfortunately it as yet not listed in hplip driver package:

https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imag ... ices/index

[LaurentRueil]

Thanks for your response.

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?

Who knows if it's possible to modify one of them easily?
A tool exists for that?
Thanks

[LaurentRueil]

I also tried to select the PPD file from the Debian distribution (for HP web site) but it doesn't work.

Who know if it will be better to use CUPS on UBUNTU for Raspberry?

Regards
Laurent

[scruss]

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.

[fruitoftheloom]

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.

caveat emptor

[LaurentRueil]

Thank you for your message.
I use this raspberry for my Deskjet, and I will use a PC to share the Laser for the moment.