[Solved]HP Deskjet 2131--How to run it in Puppy Xenial64?

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[Solved]HP Deskjet 2131--How to run it in Puppy Xenial64?

#1 Post by april »

I have posted this because I have not found a way to get this very cheap printer /scanner (AUD $19) to run properly.

I have been very successful with its competitor Cannon MG2560 (AUD $15) which runs without additions .

The program available from HP is "HPLIP.bin" and trying to compile this is unsucessful as there are unsatisfied dependancies and a chase your tail scenario.

See here for output http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=112472

I'm hoping someone with more knowledge of printers than me can help sort it out and make this dirt cheap but excellent printer useable for the Puppy community.
Last edited by april on Tue 23 Jan 2018, 22:09, edited 2 times in total.

stemsee

#2 Post by stemsee »

I recently bought the HP 2130 and I had success installing it on FatDog64-720 after doing some conf editing. i installed hplip-3.16.7 puppy package and on top of that hplip-3.17.* from slackware alien!?


But no scanner. Until I edited /etc/sane.d/hp.conf and added details from lsusb. Also had to run scanimage -L on command line to find scanner (takes a few minutes).

Now it is all working.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=108570
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april

#3 Post by april »

Excellent - Thanks very much -worked a treat.

I got "hplip". via Puppy Package Manager.
Installed it ...rather a long one
Went to "localhost:631" in my browser
Modified the printer to use "2130"

Away it went and scanner worked with sane as well.

april

#4 Post by april »

When I tried to add a printer above setup-cups didn't work got a funny page with bookmarks that didn't work.

Turns out from the cups script it expects the default browser /html viewer to be set . As Xenialpup64 7.5 comes out of the box with the viewer set to "auto" it did not get there .

So change default html viewer to palemoon and the cups setup comes up normally

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