HP printer on Budgie vs Mate

Mgkbh

My hp printer was detected but wouldn’t work on Solus Budgie. Would it be better to try Solus Mate?

jppelt

Mgkbh The only thing I might add is when HPLIP has been prickly in the past, I go directly through CUPS and id the model/driver online. As for my HP, it works perfectly on Solus Budgie and I installed via HPLIP.

That being said, I've always had issues with HP detection in the past, regardless of distro. Makes me wonder what printer I am going to get once this one dies.

riffer

If it is anything like my Brother printer, it is detected but has to still have drivers installed.

As a minimum, I think there is a file in the software centre named hplip that has to be installed.

Mgkbh

riffer Thanks for the response. I installed hplip before starting the process.

pomon

Or maybe write what exactly the printer is. Model.

Mgkbh

pomon It’s an HP Laserjet 1020.

MechAlbatross

Mgkbh Hi, did you find any fix for your Laserjet 1020? I seem to get the same issue with my Laserjet P1005.
Everything is detected with hplip but nothing prints and I get the following error "filter failed".

MechAlbatross

I'm thinking of trying ubuntu for this specific machine to see if it works with it instead but I would like to stay with Solus since it's been awesome for the last two years.

Mgkbh

MechAlbatross My printer works fine with MX Linux. But it didn’t work with Manjaro either. I’ll try Solus again when I have time to set it up. I really want to go back to Solus Budgie since MX is getting ready to move from 19.4 to 21.

Axios

The issue is not detection but the filter you need change that and find one that works at the moment I cant remember how seems be issue with hlip and filters lot them dont match printer or something. Had time with my laser think i even downloaded some filters from somewhere finally got it work works great now. Its just with Hp