need help with printer set-up.
I bought a new hp laser jet pro mfp m180nw. This morning, I installed:
* hplip-gui
* hplip
and all their dependencies. “dnf upgrade” shows they and cups are up-to-date.
As root, I used cups to try to install my new printer (HP LaserJet Pro MFP M180nw). The
printer was already powered on and connected to my workstation’s tower via USB cable. But
when I try a print test from cups, I get page after page, each having several seemingly
random strange characters, but otherwise mostly blank. I had to power down the printer to
cut the waste of paper.
As root, I tried to launch “HPLIP Graphical Tools”. Nothing appeared to happen.
Logged in as the non-root administrator, when I launch “HPLIP Graphical Tools”, I get an
error GUI saying
“No Installed HP Devices Found”
and a few seconds later, another error GUI saying
“HPLIP Status service”
and
“No system tray detected on this system. Unable to start, exiting.”
The first GUI suggests running the hp-setup (a button is provided). I do that. I get
another GUI. I select as a “Connection (I/O) Type” the USB option. As advanced options,
the search term field is blank, and the type is set to “All devices/printers”. I click
“Next >”. It says “No devices found.”.
The first error GUI also suggests using the cups web interface. There, everything looks
ok to me, but I’m (obviously) no expert in these things.
What’s wrong? How to I get my printer working? I’m in Fedora-27; Gnome.