I am trying to debug a friend's HP printer and have no idea wtf I'm doing {HELP NEEDED}

2026-05-07 13:32 UTC

I am ssh’d into his machine, and can only access cli, he can see what I do via tmux. My friend is on Fedora 44, and has a HP103a printer which gets detected with lpstat: ~> lpstat -d system default destination: HP-Laser-103-107-108 BUT, when I try to print with lp, he says the printer makes a little noise but nothing prints out. I tried hp-setup but: ~> hp-setup -i -b usb /usr/share/hplip/prnt/cups.py:705: SyntaxWarning: 'return' in a 'finally' block return fax_ppd,expected_fax_ppd_name, nick HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.25.8) Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0 Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. (Note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press to accept the default.) ^[[error: No device selected/specified or that supports this functionality. I understand how painful printers can be, does anyone have experience with this? I haven’t used a printer with Linux before but I can provide logs.

Replies (6)

@atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-07 13:52

Does fedora use cups? Have you tried the web interface on port 631 (localhost:631)?

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@anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-07 13:53

Found this older thread on the fedora forums discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/…/72 If your friend has no other printer then it might be worthwhile to remove the printer if it exists, then remove ipp-usb and hplip, reboot and finally reinstall the hplip packages from dnf again. sudo dnf remove ipp-usb sudo dnf remove hplip reboot sudo dnf install hplip hplip-gui Personally I haven’t had the displeasure of touching a hp printer in a long time so my tip is based on the thread not experience.

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@Maiq@piefed.social 2026-05-07 13:55

Does he have cups installed?

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@digdilem@lemmy.ml 2026-05-07 19:09

fuck printers Spoken like a professional.

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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-05-10 15:24

Soo, hplip shipped a syntax error in a module?

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@chgxvjh@hexbear.net 2026-05-07 14:00

Might be easier to use the cups web thing.

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