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Installing an HP Wireless Printer on Linux Mint

31 Wednesday Dec 2014

Posted by jmatthewturner in Linux

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hp, hplip, linux, m127fw, mint

I recently purchased an HP M127fw printer/scanner, largely because of its rumored excellent support for Linux. Indeed, installing and getting it working was super easy – but only once I stumbled onto the right method. (First I read page after page about the HPLIP printing system and possible necessary plugins, and saw many different sets of (relatively) complicated instructions for installation, each one a beautiful and unique snowflake.)

But here’s all you have to do: run hp-setup, preferably as root:

sudo hp-setup

aaaaand that’s pretty much it. If you have Linux Mint 17 (and I’m sure many other distros, but this is what I can verify), then you already have hp-setup installed on your system. If not, you’ll have to use your package manager to get it. I’ve included screenshots below so you can see what to expect.

sudo hp-setupHP Device Manager - Setup (Step 1 of 3)

Above was the only moment of confusion. I can’t tell you the difference between the middle two options, but the selected option gave me what I wanted: the printer is now a device on my wireless network.

HP Device Manager - Setup (Step 2 of 3)

HP Device Manager - Enter Username/Password

This annoyance is because I didn’t run it with sudo. :-/ Learn from my mistakes!

HP Device Manager - Plugin Installer (Step 1 of 2) HP Device Manager - Setup (Step 3 of 3)

Above is how this window appeared initially. The only changes I made were to the printer name and test page checkbox:

HP Device Manager - Setup (Step 3 of 3)

Below you can see some of the options the driver provides. Scanning works, as well (although my Mac got much better results from the ADF).

Print Dialogue Print Dialogue

Jackie!

10 Wednesday Dec 2014

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Tony Zhou just put up another great film technique discussion video – this time about my favorite filmmaker, Mr. Jackie Chan.

What more do you need to know? Watch it!

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