Op 25-01-2023 om 09:10 schreef Jiri Slaby:

On 24. 01. 23, 15:20, Simon Becherer wrote:

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Am 24.01.23 um 14:38 schrieb Jogchum Reitsma:

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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.

The openprinting.org site also shows  no Color Laser 178nw.

It was bought very recently, so I wouldn't think it's a too old model.

Anyone an idea how to get this beast to work?

Thanks i advance,

Jogchum

maybe its a printer for driverless printing ?

+1

It supports AirPrint (as many current printers): https://openprinting.github.io/printers/

So you don't have to install ANY drivers.

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google cups driverless printing

https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting

OK, I'll check that. Didn't now about this possibility. Thanks! regards, Jogchum

Hi,Op 24-01-2023 om 15:50 schreef Carlos E. R.:

On 2023-01-24 14:38, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:

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I have been caught by problems like that before, so the advice is, check for Linus support before purchase.

If I would have bought it, I would have checked... 😁

Are you using Leap or Tumbleweed?

Tumbleweed. hplips et alienates are installed.

If Leap, you should add the printing repository, and update cups and drivers (specially the hplip packages). Maybe you are lucky and the new version supports your printer, but I fear that if even HP say nothing about support (in their Linux printing site, not the general site), then you are out of luck.

Funny thing is, it seems they have no driver at all, be it for Windows, Mac or Linux. At least, that's my conclusion from what HP says. I'll contact HP Support Thanks!, Jogchum

Le 24/01/2023 à 19:30, Jogchum Reitsma a écrit :

Funny thing is, it seems they have no driver at all, be it for Windows, Mac or Linux. At least, that's my conclusion from what HP says.

no need for a driver, it's probably a pdf printer any direct send is ok I nearly always use any apple or hp color / n&b postscript driver and it works. however, one can't probably control all the printer parameters jdd -- mon serveur usenet: dodin.fr.nf c'est quoi, usenet? http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Usenet.Usenet

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

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. As said, even without mentioning the OS, so it seems there is no driver for whatever OS.

When I selected SUSE and open all drivers it shows mehttps://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/701928

I did not find a place to select Suse.... Can you point me to  where you found it?

HP MFP 130 and HP Color MFP 170 Printer series Print and Scan Driver

V1.00.39:00.12_00.15 11.1 MB Jun 26, 2020 Download

Alsohttps://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/701928 may be useful

This url I did not find, so thanks! It discusses the MFP170nw, which would seem to be close enough. It is reasonably recent, too (2022-05). But the driver url, mentioned in #8 of the discussion leads me again to the "We were unable to find drivers for your product." page. I think I have to contact HP Support. Thanks for helping! regards, Jogchum

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The openprinting.org site also shows  no Color Laser 178nw.

It was bought very recently, so I wouldn't think it's a too old model.

Anyone an idea how to get this beast to work?

Thanks i advance,

Jogchum

On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:16:26 +0100 Jogchum Reitsma wrote:

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

Well here it says Software and drivers for HP Color Laser MFP 178nw Choose a different product Detected operating system: SUSE Linux Choose a different OS Maybe it depends on some version or other or whatever domains you have enabled in noscript or something ... who knows FWIW the download link for the driver it gives is https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software13/printers/MFP170/uld-hp_V1.00.39.12... I have no idea whether that is what you need.

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.

What happens if you click on 'Choose a different OS'? ON my m/c I see two boxes. In the first I select Linux and then in the second one of the choices is SUSE Linux.

As said, even without mentioning the OS, so it seems there is no driver for whatever OS.

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When I selected SUSE and open all drivers it shows mehttps://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/701928

I did not find a place to select Suse.... Can you point me to  where you found it?

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HP MFP 130 and HP Color MFP 170 Printer series Print and Scan Driver

V1.00.39:00.12_00.15 11.1 MB Jun 26, 2020 Download

Alsohttps://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/701928 may be useful

This url I did not find, so thanks! It discusses the MFP170nw, which would seem to be close enough. It is reasonably recent, too (2022-05). But the driver url, mentioned in #8 of the discussion leads me again to the "We were unable to find drivers for your product." page.

I think I have to contact HP Support.

Thanks for helping!

regards, Jogchum

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The openprinting.org site also shows  no Color Laser 178nw.

It was bought very recently, so I wouldn't think it's a too old model.

Anyone an idea how to get this beast to work?

Thanks i advance,

Jogchum

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:

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). Thanks! regards, Jogchum

Op 25-01-2023 om 12:13 schreef Carlos E. R.:

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

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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)

Hmm, I tried that, but id not manage to get it working - quite possibly because I never used (actually, never heard of it) and don't know how to activate it. I have the latest CUPS/hplip I think, as a TW-user. Therefore I decided to go the HP-driver route, and that works like a charm.  So, for now at least, I think I'll leave it that way. Thanks to all for you advice! regards, Jogchum