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02-07-2022 02:04 AM
Hi,
I try to install a printer HP Color Laser MFP 179fnw on Manjaro/Arch Linux with some trouble. I don't have windows computer in my home so....
First i've checked links on driverless with CUPS for Debian:
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting
Also the doc of Gentoo:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Driverless_printing
So i try to use IPP everywhere when i get the IP adress of the printer on my network. For that i connect the printer with WIFI and print a page of network configuration report. All was OK. See the picture i add.
The printer assign ipp://192.168.1.1/ipp/print
I try before the command to get URI:
$ driverless
I get nothing
I try that with lpadmin by the command:
$ lpadmin -p HP_laser -E -v ipp://192.168.1.1/ipp/print -m everywhere
then see the printer on:
$ lpstat -t
Printer on IDLE and running but unvailable.
Then i've checked if PPD generator worked on:
$ ls -al /etc/cups/ppd/
I get nothing, the generator don't work.
I've launch a queue on a file in libreoffice, the printing awaiting, then write unvailable.
So IPP Everywhere doesn't work, i give a chance to HPLIP and run:
$ hp-setup
But the configuration can't find the printer on network, i try in USB is something missing.
So i return to lpadmin and use driver from AUR packetage hpuld to test:
$ lpadmin -p HPlaserMFP179 -v socket://192.168.1.1 -P /usr/share/ppd/uld-hp/HP_Color_Laser_MFP_17x_Series.ppd
Still doesn't work with this driver. So i thought maybe a network problem:
$ ping 192.168.1.1
return:
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) octets de données.
De 192.168.1.90 icmp_seq=1 Hôte de destination injoignable
Unvailable in french, so i try to ask my ISP. I contact my ISP to check my local network, he try to ping the printer with success. But me i'm in trouble. He told me to see with HP support and said for the ISP no problem on the network.
I'm little bit lost after try some solution on:
WIFI / USB
IPP Everywhere / HPLIP / hpuld driver