Getting an HP Laserjet 1020 to work with Ubuntu

Topics: Interesting Tech, GNU/Linux, Linux, Troubleshooting, Printers, HPLJ 1020, CUPS, Ubuntu

I recently clean-installed Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn on my Acer Aspire 5672 laptop. Works beautifully. The only problem of note I found was getting it to work with a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 1020 printer. I configured the printer and ran a test page. But nothing would come out. I checked the cables. Even booted into another operation system on the laptop and did a successful test print.

I finally got it to work after doing some Web searches. I figure if anybody else may have similar problems, I'd post about the fix.

One of the particularly helpful sites was the Open Printing database LJ 1020 entry at The Linux Foundation site. It pointed me to the foo2zjs driver home page. The foo2zjs page had a prominent notice:

*** DON'T USE the foo2zjs package from Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandrake/Manrivia, Debian, RedHat, Gentoo, MacOSX, or BSD!

Instead, one should download the driver from the f002zjs site.

I did that and followed the installation instructions. I tried again to print a test page. Nothing came out. That was a disappointment, but I wasn't going to give up.

A few more searches for the CUPS errors I was seeing (such an error 1028, whatever that is) yielded a clue. The problem might be in the CUPSYS.

I reinstalled CUPSYS via the Adept tool and, Bob's your uncle, the test page worked.

J.D. Abolins

13.8.07 03:20
 


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