The 6 year old Samsung printer died so I got a new HP M102 Laserjet for my Linux desktop. It didn't come with Linux drivers for the Lubuntu 14.04 LTS (10 yr old machine with 2.4 GHz procie and 2 GB RAM). So I downloaded a third party driver - hplip - and it installed without issue.The system shows the new printer is installed as the default printer and shows its icon with a fat green check mark. But if I try to print anything, the printer's green online LED starts to blink (indicating data transfer is ongoing) but doesn't do anything else. Doesn't even pull the bond paper into the machine. After a minute the LED blinking stops and the LED now glows steadily. No error messages are displayed.
I thought maybe it needs a more updated OS so I installed a more recent Lubuntu release: 16.10 version. But I got the same no go situation. I asked an IT guy for help and he suggested use the Terminal functiob and with the printer on and the desktop connected to the internet, type: sudo apt-get install cups, then press . It downloaded a bunch of things but still no joy.I still get the same printer behavior and no print. What to do next?
I know it's not the printer at fault because I tried it on a Windows machine and it works fine there.
I thought maybe it needs a more updated OS so I installed a more recent Lubuntu release: 16.10 version. But I got the same no go situation. I asked an IT guy for help and he suggested use the Terminal functiob and with the printer on and the desktop connected to the internet, type: sudo apt-get install cups, then press . It downloaded a bunch of things but still no joy.I still get the same printer behavior and no print. What to do next?
I know it's not the printer at fault because I tried it on a Windows machine and it works fine there.