Printing to modern HP printers.

It slows down DNS queries when I already have a proper DNS server on the network. Even noticable on Ping responses. Yuk.

I wanted to write the same thing :-)

One of the things to be done after installation of a Pi, Cubie, etc.

apt-get remove --purge ifplugd apt-get remove --purge avahi-daemon >/etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering

(of course assuming that it is not already infected with systemd)

I like to keep my system's behaviour deterministic...

Its installed on my pi2 (& my Pi B IIRC) so it must be :-)

well that is certainly the most user friendly way to set up a cups queue if you have a gui

Right, I'll try and see if & how it makes a difference. One thing impacted is rplay which apparently requires avahi-daemon. (AirPlay video target, only from recent Apple devices, turns out my iMac was too old so might as well remove it.)

Tip: "purge" is an alias for "remove --purge". Also try "apt-get autoremove" afterwards, probably removes libavahi-core7 and libdaemon0.

I have two Pi2s. One of them runs Raspbian and the other one runs Ubuntu. My printer is a local HP 2035 Laserjet. I decided to set up printing on both Pis, and stared with the Ubuntu one. I installed hplib and its graphical front end and ran the setup program. I then let it download and install the proprietary HP printer driver the 2035 requires. When I was done, I ran a test page and voila', it printed perfectly. I then ran some tax forms and they also printed perfectly. A couple days later, I tried doing the same on the Raspbian machine. Everything seemed to install fine, but when I went to print a test page, nothing happened. I rooted around in the driver diagnostics and could see that the hplip program had all the installation info about the printer correct, right down to its serial number, which would indicate that the program and the printer can talk to each other. However, the first message out of the diagnostics was that Raspbian was not a system that hplip had in its list of configured distributions, then the printer info was spit out. The final message was the the driver couldn't find the .ppd file, which it named, in the /etc/...directory. I took a look there and that .ppd WAS there. No tweaks that I made had any effect. Finally, I went to the Pi blogs and found that someone had posted the instructions for getting Cups to run on the Pi. I followed them and got the Cups setup page. Went through the setup, tried to print the test page, and this time, the printer activity light blinked once, then nothing further happened. At this point I'm totally baffled as to why neither program will print through Raspbian. If somebody figures it out, a lot of us will be glad to try the solution on our own machines.

Do you have links to the blogs about setting up CUPS on the Pi? It would be useful to know which ones you followed.

Cheers

Dave R

(And hplip didn't work for me, but foomatic did. If neither works for you, there's hpijs and gutenprint, and probably other sources of PPDs as well.)

HPLIP didnt work for me *for that printer* till I downloaded the latest build from HP, and that had the right PPD in it, which I posted here