On 2018-05-08 at 18:57:09 home user via users wrote: > I bought a new hp laser jet pro mfp m180nw. This morning, I installed: > * hplip-gui > * hplip > and all their dependencies. “dnf upgrade” shows they and cups are up-to-date. > > As root, I used cups to try to install my new printer (HP LaserJet Pro MFP M180nw). > The printer was already powered on and connected to my workstation’s tower via USB > cable. But when I try a print test from cups, I get page after page, each having > several seemingly random strange characters, but otherwise mostly blank. I had to > power down the printer to cut the waste of paper. > > As root, I tried to launch “HPLIP Graphical Tools”. Nothing appeared to happen. > > Logged in as the non-root administrator, when I launch “HPLIP Graphical Tools”, I get > an error GUI saying “No Installed HP Devices Found” > and a few seconds later, another error GUI saying > “HPLIP Status service” > and > “No system tray detected on this system. Unable to start, exiting.” > The first GUI suggests running the hp-setup (a button is provided). I do that. I get > another GUI. I select as a “Connection (I/O) Type” the USB option. As advanced > options, the search term field is blank, and the type is set to “All > devices/printers”. I click “Next >”. It says “No devices found.”. The first error GUI > also suggests using the cups web interface. There, everything looks ok to me, but I’m > (obviously) no expert in these things. > > What’s wrong? How to I get my printer working? I’m in Fedora-27; Gnome. Did you run hp-setup? -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
