HPLIP

Printing blank pages

Bug #1494175 reported by Janine on 2015-09-10

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	HPLIP	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
HP officejet all-in-one 5510

My printer was working until I upgraded to 14.04 It has not worked well since and eventually stopped printing anything.

I have new ink cartridges in so there is plenty of ink.

Today I've installed the latest hplip 3.15.7 which feels like I am a step closer to getting things fixed however it's only printing blank pages.
I have been in cups to admin to set users but still getting blank pages for anything I print.

I feel there must be something simple I am missing.
Can you help please
(and can you make it really simple to follow for a non-techy person, thanks)

Here is the output of hp-check -t

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.15.7)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 15.1

Copyright (c) 2001-15 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.
2. 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.
3. 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

---------------
| SYSTEM INFO |
---------------

Kernel: 3.13.0-63-generic #103-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 14 21:43:30 UTC 2015 GNU/Linux
Host: J-cREAtions
Proc: 3.13.0-63-generic #103-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 14 21:43:30 UTC 2015 GNU/Linux
Distribution: ubuntu 14.04
Bitness: 32 bit

-----------------------
| HPLIP CONFIGURATION |
-----------------------

HPLIP-Version: HPLIP 3.15.7
HPLIP-Home: /usr/share/hplip
HPLIP-Installation: Auto installation is supported for ubuntu distro 14.04 version

Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

[hplip]
version=3.15.7

[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.15.7
html=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.15.7
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.
[configure]
network-build=yes
libusb01-build=no
pp-build=no
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
hpijs-install=no
foomatic-drv-install=no
foomatic-ppd-install=no
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
hpcups-install=yes
cups-drv-install=yes
cups-ppd-install=no
internal-tag=3.15.7
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt4
qt3=no
qt4=yes
policy-kit=no
lite-build=no
udev_sysfs_rules=no
hpcups-only-build=no
hpijs-only-build=no

Current contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:
Plugins are not installed. Could not access file: No such file or directory

Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
[installation]
date_time = 07/09/15 12:54:35
version = 3.15.7

[upgrade]
notify_upgrade = true
last_upgraded_time = 1441620078
pending_upgrade_time = 0
latest_available_version = 3.15.7

[settings]
systray_visible = 0
systray_messages = 0

[last_used]
device_uri = "hp:/usb/officejet_5500_series?serial=MY42BF206696"
printer_name = officejet_5500
working_dir = .

[commands]
scan = /usr/bin/xsane -V %SANE_URI%

[refresh]
rate = 30
enable = false
type = 1

[polling]
enable = false
interval = 5
device_list =

[fax]
voice_phone =
email_address =

<Package-name> <Package-Desc> <Required/Optional> <Min-Version> <Installed-Version> <Status> <Comment>

--------------------------
| External Dependencies |
--------------------------

gs GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer REQUIRED 7.05 9.10 OK -
scanimage scanimage - Shell scanning program OPTIONAL 1.0 1.0.23 OK -
xsane xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE OPTIONAL 0.9 0.998 OK -
cups CUPS - Common Unix Printing System REQUIRED 1.1 1.7.2 OK 'CUPS Scheduler is running'
policykit PolicyKit - Administrative policy framework OPTIONAL - 0.105 OK -
network network -wget OPTIONAL - 1.15 OK -
avahi-utils avahi-utils OPTIONAL - 0.6.31 OK -
dbus DBus - Message bus system REQUIRED - 1.6.18 OK -

-------------------------
| General Dependencies |
-------------------------

libcrypto libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library REQUIRED - 1.0.1 OK -
python-dbus Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus REQUIRED 0.80.0 1.2.0 OK -
reportlab Reportlab - PDF library for Python OPTIONAL 2.0 3.0 OK -
python-notify Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify Desktop notifications OPTIONAL - - OK -
pyqt4 PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version 4.x) REQUIRED 4.0 4.10.4 OK -
python-xml Python XML libraries REQUIRED - 2.1.0 OK -
libusb libusb - USB library REQUIRED - 1.0 OK -
cups-image CUPS image - CUPS image development files REQUIRED - 1.7.2 OK -
libnetsnmp-devel libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files REQUIRED 5.0.9 5.7.2 OK -
sane-devel SANE - Scanning library development files REQUIRED - 1.0.23 OK -
pil PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for commandline scanning with hp-scan) OPTIONAL - 1.1.7 OK -
python2X Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language REQUIRED 2.2 2.7.6 OK -
pyqt4-dbus PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4 REQUIRED 4.0 4.10.4 OK -
libjpeg libjpeg - JPEG library REQUIRED - - OK -
libpthread libpthread - POSIX threads library REQUIRED - 2.19 OK -
python-devel Python devel - Python development files REQUIRED 2.2 2.7.6 OK -
cups-devel CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files REQUIRED - 1.7.2 OK -
sane SANE - Scanning library REQUIRED - 1.0.23 OK -

---------------
| COMPILEDEP |
---------------

libtool libtool - Library building support services REQUIRED - 2.4.2 OK -
gcc gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler REQUIRED - 4.8.4 OK -
make make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs REQUIRED 3.0 3.81 OK -

----------------------
| Python Extentions |
----------------------

cupsext CUPS-Extension REQUIRED - 3.15.7 OK -
hpmudext IO-Extension REQUIRED - 3.15.7 OK -

-----------------------
| Scan Configuration |
-----------------------

scanext Scan-SANE-Extension REQUIRED - 3.15.7 OK -
hpaio HPLIP-SANE-Backend REQUIRED - 3.15.7 OK 'hpaio found in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf'

-----------------------
| Other Dependencies |
-----------------------

------------------------------
| DISCOVERED SCANNER DEVICES |
------------------------------

device `hpaio:/usb/officejet_5500_series?serial=MY42BF206696' is a Hewlett-Packard officejet_5500_series all-in-one

--------------------------
| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES |
--------------------------

  Device URI Model
  -------------------------------- ------------------------
  hp:/usb/officejet_5500_series?se HP officejet 5500 series
  rial=MY42BF206696

---------------------------------
| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES |
---------------------------------

hp-officejet-5500-series
------------------------
Type: Printer
Device URI: hp:/usb/officejet_5500_series?serial=MY42BF206696
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/hp-officejet-5500-series.ppd
PPD Description: HP Officejet 5500 Series, hpcups 3.15.2
Printer status: printer hp-officejet-5500-series is idle. enabled since Mon 07 Sep 2015ready to print
Communication status: Good