Debian 12. HP Laserjet Professional P1606dn
If it prints at all, it prints the top inch of the test page or just random binary. I have tried the recommended driver, the driverless driver, the Generic PCL 4/5 driver, the Generic PCL 6 driver. And probably others I am not remembering.
I am trying to print over Ethernet, but I am about to drag the printer over near my desk and print via USB.
Fortunately, I don’t have actual critical printing to do right now and I am only setting up a printer after installing Debian 12. BTW this means it is a fresh install of Debian 12 too.
I have been helpdesk support at a data center. I would not consider myself a dummy, but this is getting ridiculous. A task that should have taken all of 10 minutes has taken over 2 hours so far.
How are we ever going to get “The Year of Linux on the Desktop” if simple printing is and continues to be such a pain?
Next time don’t buy HP, :(.
I bought this printer years ago. It has worked fine most of the time up until now. Perhaps this is what I get for installing the latest Debian.
I had a Canon multifunction that absolutely refused to work with Linux. Who sells Linux friendly printers?
As mentioned by another commenter, Brother sells out of the box working on Linux printers.
Brother printers are usually pretty good with Linux. HP ought to work with Linux just fine though, they’ve had Linux drivers since forever.
I was about to say Samsung, but then I just googled and found they were bought by HP lol… So no idea.
Have you tried foo2zjs? I used to use that years ago for my old HP:
https://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_Pro_P1606dn
Both of the Brother printers I have are completely plug and play on Linux… no set up at all. As soon as I had them connected to the network, I got a popup saying a new printer was available.