Re: Printer driver HP Color Laser 178nw

On 2023-01-25 12:02, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:

Not for the first time, sent it to by accident to respondent, not to ML... Apologies!

Op 24-01-2023 om 22:36 schreef DennisG:

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On 1/24/23 1:16 PM, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:

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Op 24-01-2023 om 18:00 schreef Dave Howorth:

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On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:38:48 +0100 Jogchum Reitsma  wrote:

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Hi,

I am trying to install a HP Color Laser 178nw

Cups (and also lsusb) sees the printer, but I can't find a driver for it. The list of printer cups, and also the HP support website, is long, but I no Color Laser 178nw.

On the HP support site no driver can be found at all, regardless the choice of OS. Err, what is https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-color-laser-mfp-170-prin...

I came acros this url already, and It says

    Software and drivers for

    HP Color Laser MFP 178nw     Choose a different product     Choose a different OS

    We were unable to find drivers for your product.     Try manually selecting your operating system. If your operating     system is not listed then HP may not provide driver support for     your product with that operating system.

1.  Follow the link above 2.  Choose a different OS => Linux, SUSE 3.  Click on Driver-Product Installation Software 4.  Click on Basic Drivers 5.  Download the .tar file; open it with Ark into a directory, or open it in a terminal 6.  In a terminal, switch to root, find the noarch directory and move into it

As far as I can tell, at this point you should run the shell script named package_install.sh.  There are a number of binaries in the folder which I suspect the script is supposed to install. (Note that there are also a number of .pkg files in the folder; these are software package files which as far as I know are only for unix platforms, not supported by openSUSE - but I could be wrong about that.)

HTH.  (Oh, also, if you are using openSUSE's iptables firewall, there is a script to run which opens a port for the printer to use.)

--dg 15.4/KDE Plasma

Ah, I got it. I was distracted by the message in the eurl that says "We were unable to find drivers for your product. "

Downloaded the .tar file, have to wait till I have access again to the system concerned (it's not my own).

It is better if you try first the route Jiry Slaby said instead of installing the proprietary tools. Just make sure you have the most recent Cups and hplip you can get (in Leap, printing repo) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)