Just curious to know if anyone has successfully gotten one of these M254dw printers to work under Fedora (or any Linux distro for that matter). The hplip-3.18.12 version that comes with Fedora supposedly supports this printer; the release notes say support for the M254dw was introduced several minor versions prior to this one.
However, it doesn't work for me. If I use the recommended Postscript driver when configuring the printer, then attempting to print images just prints a Postscript error page, and attempting to print text in duplex results in only the front side of the first page printing. Needless to say, the printer works fine under Windows 10, so it's not a hardware issue.
There is a newer version of the driver (3.19.5) that can be downloaded, but the installer craps out. It first prompts me for the root/superuser password, but then proceeds to use sudo (which would presumably need MY password, not root's; trying to give my password results in a complaint that it is not correct). All the commands where it tries to use sudo report failure, although if I run them manually, they work. So it is clearly confused about whether it should be using su or sudo to run commands. This is obviously a bug in the installer, but HP's "file a bug" link points to the Launchpad site (where Ubuntu bugs are reported). I don't know if HP will even see what I posted, and I'll most likely just end up looking like a dork for posting about a Fedora issue on the Ubuntu reporting site. And in the end, there's no guarantee that the later version will work any better than the Fedora-packaged one; it just seemed worth a shot.
I'm mainly curious to know if anyone has this printer working under Fedora, and if so, how you configured it.
Thanks,
--Greg
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