EDIT: Sorry, I had one weird ‘-yes’ stuck in that first command a while back but have fixed it and this tutorial works again with copy/paste of commands. Sorry for any inconvenience.
I’ll admit I should probably upgrade my printer but… it’s still alive so I won’t. Problem is that now it’s getting harder to install on Ubuntu. Hopefully this will help someone who is havin similar issues. For me it looked like it was installed and working on 16.04 but it wouldn’t print so I reverted to command line because the HPLIP Toolbox seems to no longer be there in the Software Center…
1 Install the HP LIP Thing with GUI with this command in terminal
sudo apt-get install python-qt4 hplip-gui
2 Run the tool with this command:
hp-setup
3 Next, next, next, next, next, I agree, next….
4 Name your printer in ‘Description’,
5 Save, send test page (if you want), etc.
Hope that helps!
Thank you very much!!! Finally a way to use this printer …for more years and years 😉
my pleasure! Keep living Ubuntu.
After 12 Hours of tricking between windows 7 and Windows xp finally everythings works. I’ll call suddenly the person that has trash it with a new toner! Thank you
Can you please tell me how did you make it work ?
Yes hp1005 now work. Many thanks!
Excellent! Glad to hear it!
it works
Thank you, it really works!
thank you wery mutch!!!!!!!!!!! it`s cool && worcks
You are a star. I love Linux. And I love the way the community work to reduce waste!
Is it possible to setup Laserjet 1000 also if Ubuntu Mate is virtualized in Vitrualbox last version? Host Win7 home edition 64bit
sadly I’m not sure nor do I have time to figure it out, however, I have done something like this before… but not with Mate
Thank you Wayne. Absolutely no problems installing my old Laserjet. Much appreciated.
My pleasure!
Worked for Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS (xubuntu).
Thanks.
my pleasure!
Thank you very much! This works fine with Ubuntu 16.04.
Today I updated to 18.04.1 and the printer does not work any more. I tried to do the steps 1-5 again, but Ubuntu says that ‘hp-setup’ was not found and that I should install with ‘hplip’. After starting the installation process, it says, that some packages could not be installed. hplip: refers to: libsane1 (>= 1.0.24) should not be installed.
I watched in Synaptic, that libsane1 is 1.0.27 at the moment.
Is there a way to solve the problem with Ubuntu 18.04.1?
eeek! I haven’t tried on 18.04 yet. I just installed it last week! haha. Maybe let’s share our pain here for the benefit of others?
Yeeesss ! After an ubuntu upgrade my Laserjet 1000 silenced down-with this advice it works again, even in 2018 ! Hope I can keep it rolling till I leave this world.
Thanks !!
awesome! i just upgraded to 18.04 so… i hope it works for me again too! :0 By the way, if you’re an Ubuntu fan have you checked out what the guys at https://ubports.com are doing to the mobile world? Pretty awesome…
Hi,
thanks for the link, very interesting. But since I’m
using an Laserjet 1000 series printer on an 11 and 14 Year old hardware (Latitude D 530, Lifebook E8110) and furthermore still use WORD 2000 (WINE), I think I’ll leave the future to the younger generation…
By the way, when I upgraded to ubuntu 18.04, I had to do some more steps than the given advice. I had to install some plug-in that the system required and then to take the electric cable from the printer-not to press just the on/off button, but remove the cable from the running printer and rewire it again, then it worked. This rewiring did indeed help in many cases, when it stumbled, or to simply restart the whole system.
Thanks again !
Too bad. The future will bite you if you don’t keep up 🙂
Good news! I followed my own blog here and it worked. I didn’t have the step you are talking about but I did have a step that asked me to agree to go to a repository that was not confirmed by Ubuntu or something. That part was a bit weird, but i had to print quickly so I agreed. I wish I could remember what it was but anyway –
Thank you sooo much!
my pleasure! glad it helped
Excelente!!! funcionó para mi también!!
Dear Admin,
I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 32 bit.
I want to connect HP laserjet 1000 series printer.
I followed step 1, and got this response:
Can you advise?
”
Package hplip-gui is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Unable to locate package python-qt4
E: Package ‘hplip-gui’ has no installation candidate
“
I managed to install it with:
1. sudo apt-get install python hplip
pytho-qt4 and hplip-gui is probably deprecated.
2. hp-setup -i -a
// i for interactive and a for automatic
Not sure. I followed my own tutorial again last week when I wiped my OS and seemed to work fine. But thanks for feedback for others…
Works great with recent Ubuntu install. Thank you.
cool! No prob.
I have looked around for the better part of a week before I stumbled on this post. I have a LaserJet 1000 I bought way back in college almost 20 years ago now that I nearly threw out recently (the only reason I didn’t was because the trash can was full that week). After some frustration with Windows recently I decided to try Linux and the experience is so much better than even 5 years ago when I first tried it. You’ve saved me money – the toner is CHEAP for this unit and it still prints beautifully. Thanks for taking the time to write this – people like you are making people like me take Linux seriously for the first time.
awesome. Open-source world is never the perfectly easy path, but it’s the right path. It’s worth the fight. we were not supposed to be under the control of these things but big ugly companies have put us here. Now it’s our chance to dig up and it’s fun, too. We dig out by helping each other. Glad it helped and have a great journey!
sir , my issue is unresolved here , your command is not found in my ubuntu 20.04
i humbly request you to resolve my issue