Code: [root@localhost linuzoid]# lpinfo -v direct pdf network smb direct usb://HP/LaserJet%20P1006?serial=AC1V8DK network http network ipp network beh direct scsi network socket network lpd direct hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_P1006?serial=AC1V8DK direct hpfax Here is a pic of the version I'm using: And here are the drivers available: I tried each driver and they work, it's the firmware that doesn't load on start up. The firmware loads for me in 32 bit. But in 64 bit, I have to manually install it from the HP control panel, not really a big deal, as an inconvenience.

I sometimes fire up my printer and forget to load the firmware. Quote Mine is a HP laserjet printer P1006, and what a headache to get it going. Bonus Bot Keygen Mac. Mine takes both a plugin and a firmware driver that has to be downloaded and install through the Internet.

Right now the printer works good in 32 bit but in 64 bit I can't get it to load the firmware when I turn it on, I have to load it manually. And sometime when the drivers are updated, I lose the ability to print and have to install the plugins again and pray it works again. I had a Lexmark jet printer before that worked like a charm with Linux, but the ink cartridges were expensive, so I opted for a laserjet.

Software & Driver Downloads HP LaserJet P1006. HP LaserJet P1005/P1006/P1500 Printer Series Full Feature Software and Driver. Description: This full software solution is the same solution as the in-box CD that came with your printer. This is not a software upgrade. If a prior version software is currently installed, it must. HP Laserjet P1006 Driver Downloads for. HP LaserJet P1006 Printer Drivers for Microsoft. Hope is for the download of HP Laser jet P1006 printer.

Linuzoid Thanks, this has given me a good start picture of your printer setup. (Looks fine too for what I wanted to know). I am over working on my poor little Toshiba Tecra-M5,!GB of RAM, running KDE32. Poor thing I am impressed though because it was never really meant to run a 'big system'. I must try and trick it out with the full 4GB. Hmm getting sidetracked. The system has the the same HP Device Manager and as luck would have it, no printer installation so a nice little window pops up which solves a problem for Just17 well if I can figure out how to.

I will put that aside for time being. I am not quite sure how to proceed here, it is new to me about firmware download, which need repeated download. When I see firmware update/download I understand that this is an action that may be needed or will add improved/additional functions. When I tried to manually install a print queue on my KDE64 system for the first time for me, I think, that I am presented with 'proprietary requirement'. I have interpreted this to mean, the printer will not work unless the action is taken (firmware upgrade).

This is probably too loose a description. Checking your P1006 with HP general information it seems the firmware is needed. Now running on some bigger hardware as well as KDE64. In the following if you re-install a new 'printer driver' without me having asked you to do, please state so, I will pick it up,if you do, eventually but will save me time if I overlook it. Copy/paste with printer turned on in a user terminal, following line configured for you present printer.

Summarising: I understand the 'plugin' in your case is not an option (hp Imaging and Printing website information). If you don't have 'plugin' installed you know immediately because of none functioning printer? At least you know. Further when you re-install the 'plugin' the install carried out using HP Driver Manager.

When HPLIP is updated, as may happen whenever PCLinuxOS is updated, unless you specifically check what will be updated you do not notice HPLIP is updated so the first thing you know is when printer will not work? The following is for my record after delving into the 'plugin' item for HPLIP, I have established to my satisfaction: Information from HP Linux and Imaging and HP support Forum Some printers require plugin and some it is optional 1. Required firmware for printing is held in RAM only while printer is powered on. The printer host pc driver/queue will upon power up and for the first print job download required firmware to printer RAM. Above line indicates that printer power on need to have settled first (not sure if this really is needed) 3.

Printer may seem to have a slight delay for the first print job because of the firmware download, 4. The firmware binary file is about 250 kB so it does not take long, guessing few seconds at most. Then following print jobs do not download firmware. Printing should appear normal. Proviso of course that the printer is not turned off/on (abnormal glitch in power supply). Not clear what happens if power/connection to printer is on, but host pc turned off/rebooted? (I thought I noticed something bug reports about this?) I do not have any printer that needs firmware but experimented with downloading the 'plugin'.

The result, I do have the 'plugin' installed in HPLIP now. What about the 'firmware' where is it? It is clear that quite some activity is needed. A normal successful run of above will not leave any of the installation files, ie the installation that updates HPLIP, behind as far as I have been able to determine. I believe some 26 files are downloaded and used when you run hp-plugin, not sure how many left after cleaning out the temporary used files.

Clearly the above list shows a bundle of firmware, binary program files. One file needs to be downloaded to the named printer before it is ready tow work, ie receive a print job. Once the 'plugin' installed, 'firmware' stored on the host pc, it is now up to the printer queue to make sure that the printer is prepared with the 'firmware' before the first print job arrives after printer is powered up. This should not require user interaction after the 'plugin' is installed. As I understand Linuzoid KDE32 works fine but KDE64 not. Why does automatic reload of 'firmware' not take place. Problem seem to based around the host OS, in this case: 1.

Start looking at normal error messages might give a clue. Check that the above firmware actually stored on the host pc (belts and braces) 3. Attention to physical power on sequence of host pc and printer Linuzoid Do a check, run the line below in root or user terminal, copy/paste and post the result. Code: [linuzoid@localhost ~]$ lpstat -a -l -p HP-P1006 accepting requests since Sun 22 Jun 2014 08:24:13 AM CDT printer HP-P1006 is idle. Enabled since Sun 22 Jun 2014 08:24:13 AM CDT Form mounted: Content types: any Printer types: unknown Description: Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet P1006 Alerts: none Location: localhost Connection: direct Interface: /etc/cups/ppd/HP-P1006.ppd On fault: no alert After fault: continue Users allowed: (all) Forms allowed: (none) Banner required Charset sets: (none) Default pitch: Default page size: Default port settings.

Code: [linuzoid@localhost ~]$ lpoptions -p HP-P1006 -l PageSize/Media Size: Card3x5 Hagaki A6 Card5x8 Oufuku A5 B5 JB5 Executive 16k *Letter A4 ExecutiveJIS FLSA Legal EnvA2 EnvC6 EnvChou4 EnvMonarch EnvDL Env10 EnvChou3 EnvC5 EnvB5 Custom.WIDTHxHEIGHT Duplex/Double-Sided Printing: DuplexNoTumble DuplexTumble *None InputSlot/Media Source: *Auto PhotoTray Upper Lower Envelope LargeCapacity Manual MPTray ColorModel/Output Mode: *Gray MediaType/Media Type: *Plain OutputMode/Print Quality: *Normal Draft OptionDuplex/Duplexer Installed: False *True. Code: [linuzoid@localhost ~]$ hp-check -t Saving output in log file: /home/linuzoid/hp-check.log HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.6) Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 15.1 Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions.

See COPYING file for more details. Note: hp-check can be run in three modes: 1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling the HPLIP supplied tarball (.tar.gz or.run) to determine if the proper dependencies are installed to successfully compile HPLIP. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro supplied package (.deb,.rpm, etc) or an already built HPLIP supplied tarball has the proper dependencies installed to successfully run. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode will check both of the above cases (both compile- and run-time dependencies).

Check types: a. EXTERNALDEP - External Dependencies b. GENERALDEP - General Dependencies (required both at compile and run time) c.

COMPILEDEP - Compile time Dependencies d. [All are run-time checks] PYEXT SCANCONF QUEUES PERMISSION Status Types: OK MISSING - Missing Dependency or Permission or Plug-in INCOMPAT - Incompatible dependency-version or Plugin-version warning: pclinuxos-2014 version is not supported. Using pclinuxos-2009.0 versions dependencies to verify and install.

--------------- SYSTEM INFO --------------- Kernel: 3.15.1-pclos2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 19 23:44:09 CDT 2014 GNU/Linux Host: localhost Proc: 3.15.1-pclos2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 19 23:44:09 CDT 2014 GNU/Linux Distribution: pclinuxos 2014 Bitness: 64 bit ----------------------- HPLIP CONFIGURATION ----------------------- HPLIP-Version: HPLIP 3.14.6 HPLIP-Home: /usr/share/hplip warning: HPLIP-Installation: Auto installation is not supported for pclinuxos distro 2014 version Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file: # hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

[hplip] version=3.14.6 [dirs] home=/usr/share/hplip run=/var/run ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.14.6 html=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.14.6 icon=/usr/share/applications cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter drv=/usr/share/cups/drv/hp bin=/usr/bin # Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed. Code: [root@localhost linuzoid]# hp-plugin -i -g HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.6) Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1 Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions.

See COPYING file for more details. Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: Locking: /var/hp-plugin.lock (Note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'.

Press to accept the default.) ----------------------------------------- PLUG-IN INSTALLATION FOR HPLIP 3.14.6 ----------------------------------------- hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_marvell.so library file present. Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_marvell.so library status: 1 hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_soap.so library file present. Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_soap.so library status: 1 hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_soapht.so library file present. Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_soapht.so library status: 1 hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/fax/plugins/fax_marvell.so library file present. Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/fax/plugins/fax_marvell.so library status: 1 hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/hbpl1.so library file present.

Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/hbpl1.so library status: 1 hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/lj.so library file present. Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/lj.so library status: 1 hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_marvell.so library file present.

Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_marvell.so library status: 1 hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_soap.so library file present. Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_soap.so library status: 1 hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_soapht.so library file present. Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_soapht.so library status: 1 hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/fax/plugins/fax_marvell.so library file present. Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/fax/plugins/fax_marvell.so library status: 1 hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/hbpl1.so library file present. Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/hbpl1.so library status: 1 hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/lj.so library file present.

Hp-plugin[5665]: debug: /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/lj.so library status: 1 The driver plugin for HPLIP 3.14.6 appears to already be installed. Do you wish to download and re-install the plug-in?

(y=yes*, n=no, q=quit)? Q hp-plugin[5665]: debug: Unlocking: /var/hp-plugin.lock. Linuzoid Running Linux can be a very good technical crossword puzzle replacement Previous has been collection of some basic information for me to fall back on as well as making sure I understand this 'plugin' in item.

Is your printer connected all the time to the host pc via USB cable? So when you power up your host pc (running 24 hours a day?) does your printer power up at the same time? Start up a root terminal and get familiar with adding short notes in what now will become a 'live' 'message' logging screen where you can add comments and later copy/paste details to your post. Preferably have the USB cable connected but power off printer when you 'start' the 'tailing terminal'. You will soon get the idea. Code: tail -f /var/log/messages 3. The screen should settle down with a few lines showing and you will notice occasional added lines.

When a pause, enter some return or line feeds type in a marker such as 'printer powered' and then power the printer. Associated starting up messages will roll over the screen, and may continue regularly with a repeating pattern it is the transient start up lines I am interested in. Let us see how you go with this. You did mention running KDE32 with success using printer here.

Does this mean you have KDE32 still available? Anybody with a firmware based printer following the thread, invited to join in to help with some simple diagnostic. Let me have your printer model and I will come back with instructions. Code: [root@localhost linuzoid]# tail -f /var/log/messages Jun 28 05:52:21 localhost klogd: ctnetlink v0.93: registering with nfnetlink. Code: [root@localhost linuzoid]# tail -f /var/log/messages Jun 28 05:52:21 localhost klogd: ctnetlink v0.93: registering with nfnetlink. Code: [root@localhost linuzoid]# tail -f /var/log/messages Jun 28 07:23:33 localhost klogd: usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jun 28 07:23:33 localhost klogd: usb 3-1: Product: HP LaserJet P1006 Jun 28 07:23:33 localhost klogd: usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard Jun 28 07:23:33 localhost klogd: usb 3-1: SerialNumber: AC1V8DK Jun 28 07:23:33 localhost klogd: WARNING!