HP Linux Imaging and Printing Reviews

excellent work, loved it !!!

Please, the HP-ink-tank-410/416 Wireless do not work with Linux Debian 11 (Bullseye). The printer is good but do not recognize the scanner. Same scanner problem with HP F4200 (Scanner always with a black page).

please add HP Laser MFP 135A

As a long time Linux user and after having run the family network windows free since year 2000, I can attest that HP developers did a great job with hplip. Simply downloading the package and running the installer does the job on Debian based OSes. The installer can detect the missing prereqs, distribution hplip SW already present (and still with UBUNTU 20.04 not up to date) and other requisites and fix them automatically. At the end of the process it can scan your devices and configure them on the spot. I used hplip quite a few time and it's got better and easier to manage. Only I step always on a problem with the retrieval of the sane scanner Plugins certificate from a mit.edu URL... skipping it and trusting the download gets you to the end of the configuration anyway. I've seen that it may get confused with Linux installed with local languages and having used it only on En_US based instances I cannot provide a fdbk on this... If and when I will test it on It_IT OS, I'll come back and provide some insights. Thanks Developers!

As a 12-year user of Linux (currently 64-bit Mint 20), I have found only 3 brands of printers that are not either an ungodly nightmare to install & configure, or they require that the Linux user sacrifice multiple capabilities. Of the 3 brands, HP hardware is leagues ahead of the other 2 brands. But the best part is HPLIP. This amazing software reduces hours of hair-tearing installation, configuration, and vendor support calls that other brands require to just 20-30 minutes of following amazingly accurate and understandable HP instructions. It took me 30-35 minutes to install an HP B&W LaserJet and an HP color wide-format all-in-one InkJet -- including wireless printing from multiple WiFi devices. Fabulous!

3 stars only because of paucity of troubleshooting solutions. Otherwise, the driver software is fine. Check out my pre-install steps at sourceforge.net/p/hplip/news/2020/10/hplip-3209-release-notes/ After that, I followed the same install instructions at the HP Developers link, above, and all went smoothly.

I live in Spain, and I think that is the problem. I downloaded the installation software but I cannot run the installation. It seems I must choose another alphabet code to run the installation, but I don't know which. I have saved the text of the installation software, but I am new in Linux and I don't know what to do to install it by trying, and mistake or success. Could someone help me? I wrote to HP, but they told me they cannot help me with installations problems. I hope sooner or later I will be able to give a good rate to this project. But until now, the only thing I can say is that I am not satisfied by the support. Problem solved on 10/11/2020 I wrote to Foro Linux, a web to help Linux users, in spanish. It was so simple as: 1. Turn on the HP 2. Turn on the Pc 3. Go to the Terminal and write: gnome-control-center printers 4. Press Enter In a few seconds a graphic interface oponed. The rest was very simple.

Despite the negative reviews I read (which I do not doubt are accurate), the installer ran without any big problems on my Linux Mint 18.1 system. The installer prompted to remove outdated versions of HPLIP I hadn't realized were already there and installed all prerequisites. There was one minor complaint/error at the end when it tried to launch a browser with a web page for some introductory help I believe. It took me 2 tries to pick the right discovery protocol for my HP Envy Pro 6400 and then it successfully set up the printer, which has been operating pretty well ever since as a printer for the most part. I haven't tried scanning. After the installation, there is now an "HPLIP Status Service" icon in my status bar area, that provides some useful looking status and actions like checking the ink level and initiating a scan and diagnosing errors. My actual printer experience after install has been iffy... I get frequent communication erros with the printer reported by the HPLIP software service (which only advises me to "Please correct the problem and try again"). My home wifi is a bit flakey, so I'm not sure yet who to blame. I have another wifi printer and communication with it too is flakey. So, I will only give 4 stars for now... I do enjoy having the printer configured and (mostly) working on linux. As for stability and longevity, we will see. Update: dropping rating to 3 from 4 stars (perhaps unfairly). I found after the install my linux mint "system settings" and "sound settings" windows would not launch. I'm not sure if that was caused directly by hplip or a dependency being installed. There is a fix for that issue described here: forums dot linuxmint dot com slash viewtopic.php question p=1622330#p1622330 or search for "[SOLVED] Menu and desktop items unavailable". Good luck to you! Pete

One of the worst install programs I have ever seen. Finally got it working on one Linux computer (after hours of work), but completely gave up on my laptop.

Finally, my scanner now works in Lubuntu 18.04 64bit. Thank you! Super easy to use, just used all default recommendations (no custom options), took a long time, but after it was done, when I ran the scanning program, it FINALLY detected it to the point where it said I needed a plug-in, so I let it download and BOOM! All set with basic Simple Scan or XSane.

With my limited brain, here is how I got it to work - 1. Download hplip-3.20.6.run to Desktop (I run ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 32 bit system. I usually download stuff to the Desktop and move it later) 2. Open Terminal 3. cd Desktop 4. chmod 777 hplip-3.20.6.run (otherwise permission to run as executable will be denied. Maybe 777 is overkill) 5. ./hplip-3.20.6.run Then it installed itself very nicely with a few prompts which you have to reply to. I use the classic desktop instead of that "unity" nonsense.

Installer is a joke. I didn't even try to push it past the errors. I'm not risking screwing my system with it. No reason to think the app itself would be different in quality. Lots of staff cost optimization in HP we see here. $ grep -h "Authors*:" *.py */*.py | sort | uniq # Author: Amarnath Chitumalla # Author: Amarnath Chitumalla, Goutam Kodu # Author: Amarnath Chitumalla, Sanjay Kumar # Author: Amarnath Chitumalla, Suma Byrappa # Author: Don Welch # Author: Don Welch, Amarnath Chitumalla # Author: Don Welch, Goutam Korra, Naga Samrat Chowdary Narla, # Author: Don Welch, Naga Samrat Chowdary Narla # Author: Don Welch, Naga Samrat Chowdary Narla, # Author: Don Welch, Naga Samrat Chowdary Narla, Goutam Kodu, Amarnath Chitumalla # Author: Don Welch, Naga Samrat Chowdary Narla, Yashwant Kumar Sahu, Sanjay Kumar # Author: Don Welch, Naga Samrat Chowdary Narla, Yashwant Sahu # Author: Don Welch, Narla Naga Samrat Chowdary, Yashwant Kumar Sahu # Author: Don Welch, Sarbeswar Meher # Author: Don Welch, Yashwant Kumar Sahu # Author: Goutam Kodu, Amarnath Chitumalla # Author: James Thiele # Author: k,shunmugaraj # Authors: Amarnath Chitumalla # Author: Santhosh M, Ram Varma P, Srinivas Teja, Badal Kumar Gouda # Author: Sarbeswar Meher # Authors: Don Welch # Authors: Don Welch, Naga Samrat Chowdary Narla # Authors: Don Welch, Naga Samrat Chowdary Narla, # Authors: Don Welch, Pete Parks, Naga Samrat Chowdary Narla, # Authors: Don Welch, Smith Kennedy # Authors: Don Welch, Torsten Marek # Authors: Don Welch, Yashwant Kumar Sahu, Sanjay Kumar Sharma # Authors: Doug Deprenger, Don Welch # Author: Shunmugaraj.K # Author: Stan Dolson , Goutam Kodu # Author: Suma Byrappa # Author: Suma Byrappa, Amarnath Chitumalla # Original Author: Hamish B Lawson, 1999

The installer for this is one of the worst pieces of kak I have ever observed. It has so far done: find /home -name .hplip (when it means, more or less, expand-wildcard('/home/*/.hplip')); find /usr -name hplip (in order to remove contents of such directories, when in fact what it meant was `apt-get remove hplip-data`); a bunch of repeated `sudo` calls in which it wrote my password(!) through to `sudo` (in lieu of running `sudo` once to run their whole s***show, or prompting me multiple times, or using `sudo -v` periodically to refresh the cached credentials) several installs like `apt-get install --assume-yes imagemagick*` and then `apt-get install --asume-yes graphicsmagick*` -- these two packages are in conflict with each other and by the time the installer has finished hosing my system, neither of them is properly installed, neither works any more. and on and on. Given the manifold sins of the installer, I'm scared the hell out of the actual software.

Trying to re-install my HP printer. It was working fine for over a year. Then, it started washing a yellow/greenish tint over printed documents. It was suggested to reinstall the drivers and I was pointed here for a new hplip. I followed the directions as instructed (URLs not permitted) I tried this, no luck. I get to Step 12: Select Device, select my printer and it says "error: The device you are trying to setup requires a binary plug-in. Some functionalities may not work as expected without plug-ins. Please run 'hp-plugin' as normal user to install plug-ins. Visit (URLs not permitted) I run 'hp-plugin' and it tells me "Unable to receive key from keyserver". I tell it to install anyway. Then it finishes and says "Plug-in installation successful". I then re-run hp-setup and go through the whole Driver Plug-in thing again. I've installed the plug-in a bunch of times. Wash-rinse-repeat, over and over and over again. I have found a number of people complaining about this same thing, but no answers. Before, I could at least print, even with the color problem, I still has something I could use. Now, it does not show any printer available and I cannot print at all. I have to transfer my documents to another computer for printing.

Hi, Just want to check as when I tried this on my LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic but it didn't worked as it shows there was a problem opening the file (this file that has been downloaded from here) My printer is HP Color Laserjet Pro MFP M180n and it is not listed in the Linux Mint. Could you please advise and assist? As I would not be able to contact the support centre through here. Regards. Please assist urgently.

Very complex to get working. Seems strange to install the printer driver separately to the plugin, and the GUI. Stopped working after update to Ubuntu 19.10. The new version for Ubuntu 19.10 says to install Gobject, but there is no version to install. The installed version of HPlip cannot find the printer, when it is immediately found by IP address without HPlip. After days of trying, and repeated reinstalling, the scanner on HP fdn281 says there are ports that should be open. The printer was fine till the upgrade. The new version does not install. IN ubuntu 19.04, this printer installed in 30 seconds. The problem was a spelling error within HPLIP of this printer. I now set up a new computer with Ubuntu 18.04, that used to work with HPLIP, but the latest HPLIP cannot find the printer that is installed an working. Apparently the spelling error remains 2 versions of HPLIP later. It is a pity that later versions of this proprietary software add errors that do not get corrected. All error messages are unrelated to the source of the problem.

Useless stuff. This could not detect my network HP Laserjet 1018 connected to the ASUS RT N-16. Waste of time.

Works with Ubuntu MATE 19.04. Does not work with Ubuntu MATE 19.10. Installed hplip-3.19.10. Restarted system. Turned printer off, then on. Ran hp-setup. It failed. The /var/logs/cups/error_log shown multiple Unknown directive errors showing it was not tested/packaged properly. Illegal option keyword string in the /etc/cups/ppd/HP-OfficeJet-Pro-7740-series.ppd file. FindDeviceById failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.NotFound:device id \'cups-HP-OfficeJet-Pro-7740-series\' does not exist. etc... This must not have been tested on a system other than the development machine. Or no one bothered to read the error_log. Ran hp-doctor. It Failed! Looking at config.log I see such errors as: g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-V' g++: fatal error: no input files g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'; did you mean '--version'? conftest.c:11:10: fatal error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory conftest.c:27:9: error: unknown type name 'not' conftest.c:27:15: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'universal' conftest.c:27:15: error: unknown type name 'universal' conftest.c:33:12: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'endian' etc... etc... etc... Obviously this code was never tested and the logs were never examined.

When the program works right it is an excellent program. Lately when I have tried to load the program It won't download the plugin. I am using Ubuntu 19.04. I hope this can be fixed.

Crap! Scanjetz Pro 2500 f1: Why is there no .deb for current Ubuntu LTS / Mint Upstream or at least at launchpad ? Only a weird "installer"

Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver OS. I tried installing it using 'sudo sh hplib-3-19.8.run' and it accepted my password and began installing. However, then the installer "highly suggests" NOT to run as root. So, I quit, and restarted without sudo. Very irritatingly, though, when I run as normal user, the installer soon asks for my root/superuser password inside the installer - but does not accept it and says it's wrong! Why do they not want me to start the install using sudo? Why can't it recognize my sudo password?! WHy did I get this printer/!?@#LI K

Two notes: It fails to install on Ubuntu 16.04 if run as root. Not a big problem, works fine as a user. Then when installed, if the LAN IP for the printer is set by hand, there's no obvious place to set the DNS servers. This causes HP Web Services to fail with a "network" error. The DNS setup, at least in the local HTTP server on the LaserJet Pro MFP M130, is illogically in the Configuration | Network Identification screen. Once DNS is assigned, HP Web Services setup works.

when will this driver support Fedora29 ? ---------------------- 20190313 thanks for fix support fedora29

Get error 1 on install lines in Fedora 29. Was able to install as root from error lines in terminal ? Why not just post a list of files that have to be installed. I just use the printer as a scanner. Works like a charm on Fedora 28.

Works perfectly with Ubuntu 18.04 and an old printer (HP 4390)