I got a HP printer that is working good with my Ubuntu laptop. But, in new Ubuntu desktop PC, it does nothing when trying to print anything.

The printer is automatically detected and added in the settings page, and shown in the Document Viewer’s Print dialog. But, it does nothing when clicking ‘Print’ button. If you ran into similar issue, then this tutorial could help.

1. First, open “Settings” and navigate to “Printers” in the left. Then, click on “Additional Printer Settings …” button.

2. In the pop-up dialog, right-click on the printer device, and click “Properties”.

3. Next, click on “Change” button after ‘Device URI’ and make sure the correct device is selected in pop-up dialog.

4. Also, click on “Change” button for the ‘Make and Module’. It should automatically search for and select the best driver for your device. If not, try ‘Search a printer driver to download’ option. Finally, click ‘Forward’ button and follow the wizard until done.

5. If your printer’s still not working after running previous steps. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal, then run command to install the HPLIP driver:

sudo apt install hplip

Or, go to this page to download the latest version, and follow this guide to install it.

6. Next, go to Printer settings page, click on the gear button for your printer and select “Printer Details” option.

Finally, either click ‘Search for Drivers’ or use “Select from Database” option, and choose the proper driver for your device.

That’s all. Enjoy!

HPLIP, HP developed open-source Linux driver, released v3.22.6 a day ago with many new printers/scanners support.

See the new devices supported in HPLIP 3.22.6:

• HP Color LaserJet Managed MFP E785dn, E786dn, E78523dn, E78528dn, E786 Core Printer, E78625dn, E78630dn, E78635dn
• HP Color LaserJet Managed Flow MFP E786z, E78625z, E78630z, E78635z
• HP LaserJet Managed MFP E731dn, E731 Core Printer, E73130dn, E73135dn, E73140dn
• HP LaserJet Managed Flow MFP E731z, E73130z, E73135z, E73140z
• HP Color LaserJet Managed MFP E877dn, E877 Core Printer, E87740dn, E87750dn, E87760dn, E87770dn
• HP Color LaserJet Managed Flow MFP E877z, E87740z, E87750z, E87760z, E87770z
• HP LaserJet Managed MFP E826dn, E826 Core Printer, E82650dn, E82660dn, E82670dn, E730dn, E73025dn, E73030dn
• HP LaserJet Managed Flow MFP E826z, E82650z, E82660z, E82670z
• HP LaserJet Pro MFP 3101fdwe, 3101fdw, 3102fdwe, 3102fdw, 3103fdw, 3104fdw, 3101fdne, 3101fdn, 3102fdne, 3102fdn, 3103fdn, 3104fdn
• HP LaserJet Pro 3001dwe, 3001dw, 3002dwe, 3002dw, 3003dw, 3004dw, 3001dne, 3001dn, 3002dne, 3002dn, 3003dn, 3004dn.

Also, the official installer script finally adds Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 36, and MX Linux 21.1 Support.

How to Install HPLIP 3.22.6:

Firstly, download the “hplip-3.22.6.run” installer from the link page below:

Then, open your Downloads folder, right-click on blank area and select “Open in Terminal“. It will open terminal and automatically navigate to the folder as working directory.

When terminal opens, run following commands one by one to add executable permission, and run installer script:

chmod u+x hplip-3.22.6.run

./hplip-3.22.6.run

In the terminal screen, it will ask you a few questions during the installation process. Except for password authentication, it’s OK to hit Enter to answer default for all questions!

After installation, plug or re-plug your printer/scanner and open the HP device manager application to get start:

Uninstall HPLIP 3.22.6

While running the installer script in terminal, it automatically creates “hplip-3.22.6” folder in your user Downloads directory!

Right-click on that folder in your file manager and select “Open in Terminal”, finally run the uninstall script via command:

sudo ./uninstall.py

If you’ve already removed that folder, re-run the .run installer will generate the folder again.

HP printer and scanner drivers, HPLIP, released version 3.22.4 recently with a list of new devices support.

This release adds Manjaro 21.2 as well as following new printers support:

• HP LaserJet Pro 4001ne, 4001n, 4001dne, 4001dn, 4001dwe, 4001dw, 4001d, 4001de,
• HP LaserJet Pro 4002ne, 4002n, 4002dne, 4002dn, 4002dwe, 4002dw, 4002d, 4002de,
• HP LaserJet Pro 4003dn, 4003dw, 4003n, 4003d, 4004d, 4004dn, 4004dw
• HP LaserJet Pro MFP 4101dwe, 4101dw, 4101fdn, 4101fdne, 4101fdw, 4101fdwe
• HP LaserJet Pro MFP 4102dwe, 4102dw, 4102fdn, 4102fdw, 4102fdwe, 4102fdne, 4102fnw, 4102fnwe
• HP LaserJet Pro MFP 4103dw, 4103dn, 4103fdn, 4103fdw, 4104dw, 4104fdw, 4104fdn
• HP ScanJet Pro 3600 f1
• HP ScanJet Pro N4600 fnw1
• HP ScanJet Pro 2600 f1
• HP ScanJet Enterprise Flow N6600 fnw1

Download & Install HPLIP 3.22.4

HP provides official .run installer for all Linux users, simply download the package “hplip-x.xx.x.run” from the link page below:

Then right-click on the Downloads folder, select “Open in Terminal”, and finally run the installer via command:

./hplip-3.22.4.run

Follow the on screen prompts, and re-plug your printer when everything’s done successfully.

Install HPLIP 3.22.4 for Ubuntu 22.04:

The installer so far does not support Ubuntu 22.04. If you do require the new version, here’s how to manually install dependencies and built the package (Thanks to fostips).

Firstly, run the previous “./hplip-3.22.4.run” command will generate the source folder in Downloads. Right-click on it and select “Open in Terminal” to open terminal.

Next, run command to manually install dependency packages:

sudo apt install --assume-yes libcups2 cups libcups2-dev cups-bsd cups-client libcupsimage2-dev libdbus-1-dev build-essential ghostscript openssl libjpeg-dev libsnmp-dev libtool-bin libusb-1.0-0-dev wget python3-pil policykit-1 policykit-1-gnome python3-pyqt5 python3-dbus.mainloop.pyqt5 python-gi-dev python3-dev python3-notify2 python3 python3-reportlab libsane libsane-dev sane-utils xsane libavahi-client-dev libavahi-core-dev avahi-utils

Finally, run the commands below one by one in this terminal window to configure and build HPLIP (with source folder as working directory):

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-qt5 --disable-qt4

make

sudo make install

It works in my case on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Uninstall HPLIP 3.22.4

To remove the driver package, you need to first open terminal with source folder as working directory (See the last picture). When it opens, run the command to start uninstall script:

sudo ./uninstall.py

Same to the installing process, it will asks few questions to confirm during the process.

HPLIP, HP’s inkjet and laser printers drivers for Linux, released 3.21.12 a few days ago with new Linux Distros support.

The released added Fedora 35, MX Linux 21, and Elementary OS 6 support. Since HPLIP package in these Linux Distros’ own repositories is always old, users may now easily install the latest version via the official script by HP.

And, nothing else in the release except for the new systems support.

Download & Install HPLIP 3.21.12

To get the software package, download the “hplip-x.xx.x.run” file from the link page below:

Next, search for and open a terminal window from start menu. And, run command to grant executable permission, and run the installer script to install it:

cd ~/Downloads && chmod +x hplip-*.run && ./hplip-*.run

Just follow the terminal output and answer questions. It will build and install the software automatically.

Tip 1: For those still using Python 2 and getting into python-pyqt5 dependency issue, see this workaround.

Tip 2: For unsupported Linux systems, you may manually install dependencies and built from the tarball. For Ubuntu based systems, there’s a tutorial teaches how to compile.

How to Remove HPLIP:

Running the “hplip-x.xx.x.run” installer will generate a source folder in user Downloads directory. If you don’t see it, re-run it via command:

~/Downloads/hplip*.run --target ~/Downloads/hplip

Then in file manager, go to “Downloads”. Right-click on ‘hplip’ folder and select ‘Open in Terminal’, finally run the uninstall script in pop-up terminal window:

sudo python3 uninstall.py

That’s all. Enjoy!