HP LaserJet P1006 no portrait printing

[Ron]

Distro: Ubuntu 14.10
Printer: HP Deskjet F340 All-in One
HPLIP version: 3.14.10
Device manager version: 15.0 (QT4)

     Hello, I am fairly new to the Linux operating system and I just switched my old home computer over to Lubuntu. I'm still compiling all the necessary software and drivers to make everything work. I´m stuck on the printer now. So let me explain what is happening.

     So everything I seem to print comes out way too small and its printed landscape and not portrait. It prints everything in the top right corner and entirely too small. The text that I print out from abiword v.3.0.0 could be set at 12pt font and it prints out in what looks like 3-6pt font. A picture that I print straight off of chromium could be 500x500 pixels and it will print the image to what seems like 1/4 of the size, also the left side of the picture will be slightly gone. I'm going to download Libre Office and see if that changes anything but I do not think that will change anything.

     Any other info you need just ask, seeing as I´m still new to all of this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you ahead of time.

Here is what came up on hp-check:

home@BOB:~$ hp-check -t
Saving output in log file: /home/home/hp-check.log

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10)
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.
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: 3.16.0-23-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 21 17:56:17 UTC 2014 GNU/Linux
 Host: BOB
 Proc: 3.16.0-23-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 21 17:56:17 UTC 2014 GNU/Linux
 Distribution: ubuntu 14.10
 Bitness: 64 bit

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

HPLIP-Version: HPLIP 3.14.10
HPLIP-Home: /usr/share/hplip
HPLIP-Installation: Auto installation is supported for ubuntu distro 14.10 version

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

[hplip]
version=3.14.10

[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.14.10
html=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.14.10
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=3.14.10
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 = 10/27/2014 20:54:46
version = 3.14.10

[upgrade]
notify_upgrade = true
last_upgraded_time = 1414453729
pending_upgrade_time = 0
latest_available_version = 3.14.10

[settings]
systray_visible = 0
systray_messages = 0

[last_used]
device_uri = "hp:/usb/Deskjet_F300_series?serial=CN662FG1YB04KH"
printer_name =
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 |
--------------------------

 policykit Admin-Policy-framework OPTIONAL - 0.105 OK -
 gs Ghostscript REQUIRED 7.05 9.14 OK -
 network Network-wget OPTIONAL - 1.15 OK -
 scanimage Shell-Scanning OPTIONAL 1.0 1.0.24 OK -
 avahi-utils avahi-utils OPTIONAL - 0.6.31 OK -
 dbus DBus REQUIRED - 1.8.8 OK -
 cups CUPS REQUIRED 1.1 1.7.5 OK 'CUPS Scheduler is running'
 xsane SANE-GUI OPTIONAL 0.9 0.998 OK -

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

 error: reportlab Python-PDF-Lib OPTIONAL 2.0 3.1.8 MISSING 'reportlab needs to be installed'
 libcrypto OpenSSL-Crypto-Lib REQUIRED - 1.0.1 OK -
 pil Python-Image-Lib OPTIONAL - 1.1.7 OK -
 pyqt4-dbus PyQt4-DBUS REQUIRED 4.0 4.11.2 OK -
 libjpeg JPEG-Lib REQUIRED - - OK -
 libpthread POSIX-Threads-Lib REQUIRED - 2.19 OK -
 python-dbus Python-DBUS REQUIRED 0.80.0 1.2.0 OK -
 python-devel Python-SDK REQUIRED 2.2 2.7.8 OK -
 pyqt4 Python-Qt4 REQUIRED 4.0 4.11.2 OK -
 cups-devel CUPS-SDK REQUIRED - 1.7.5 OK -
 sane-devel SANE-SDK REQUIRED - 1.0.24 OK -
 libusb USB-Lib REQUIRED - 1.0 OK -
 sane Scan-Lib REQUIRED - 1.0.24 OK -
 cups-image CUPS-Image-Lib REQUIRED - 1.7.5 OK -
 libnetsnmp-devel SNMP-Networking-SDK REQUIRED 5.0.9 5.7.2 OK -
 python-xml Python-XML-Lib REQUIRED - 2.1.0 OK -
 python-notify Desktop-notifications OPTIONAL - - OK -

------------------------------
| Compile Time Dependencies |
------------------------------

 gcc gcc-Compiler REQUIRED - 4.9.1 OK -
 libtool Build-tools REQUIRED - 2.4.2 OK -
 make GNU-Build-tools REQUIRED 3.0 4.0 OK -

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

 cupsext CUPS-Extension REQUIRED - 3.14.10 OK -
 pcardext PhotoCard-Extension REQUIRED - 3.14.10 OK -
 hpmudext IO-Extension REQUIRED - 3.14.10 OK -

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

 hpaio HPLIP-SANE-Backend REQUIRED - 3.14.10 OK 'hpaio found in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf'
 scanext Scan-SANE-Extension REQUIRED - 3.14.10 OK -

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

device `hpaio:/usb/Deskjet_F300_series?serial=CN662FG1YB04KH' is a Hewlett-Packard Deskjet_F300_series all-in-one

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

  Device URI Model
  ------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------
  hp:/usb/Deskjet_F300_series?serial=CN662FG1YB04KH HP Deskjet F300 series

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

HP-Deskjet-F300-series
----------------------
Type: Printer
Device URI: hp:/usb/Deskjet_F300_series?serial=CN662FG1YB04KH
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/HP-Deskjet-F300-series.ppd
PPD Description: HP Deskjet f300 Series, hpcups 3.14.6
Printer ready to printr HP-Deskjet-F300-series is idle. enabled since Mon 27 Oct 2014 08:04:34 PM EDT
Communication status: Good

--------------
| PERMISSION |
--------------

USB HP-Deskjet-F300-series Required - - OK Node:'/dev/bus/usb/002/003' Perm:' root lp rw- rw- rw- rw- r--'

-----------
| SUMMARY |
-----------

Missing Required Dependencies
-----------------------------
None

Missing Optional Dependencies
-----------------------------
error: 'python-reportlab' package is missing/incompatible

Total Errors: 1
Total Warnings: 0

Run 'hp-doctor' command to prompt and fix the issues.

Done.
home@BOB:~$

[brian_p (claremont102)]

> Hello, I am fairly new to the Linux operating system and
> I just switched my old home computer over to Lubuntu. I'm
> still compiling all the necessary software and drivers to
> make everything work. I´m stuck on the printer now. So let
> me explain what is happening.

As a new user, one wonders why you are using such an ancient
and unsupported version of Ubuntu. at the very least use
18.04 if you expect to receive useful support.

--
Brian.

[Ron (swamp-rh)]

Brian

     I'm using 18.04 and I've attached info.  I tried to eliminate the
other bug report but it didn't work out LOL

Ron

On 2020-02-16 1:35 p.m., brian_p wrote:
>> Hello, I am fairly new to the Linux operating system and
>> I just switched my old home computer over to Lubuntu. I'm
>> still compiling all the necessary software and drivers to
>> make everything work. I´m stuck on the printer now. So let
>> me explain what is happening.
> As a new user, one wonders why you are using such an ancient
> and unsupported version of Ubuntu. at the very least use
> 18.04 if you expect to receive useful support.
>

[brian_p (claremont102)]

Hello Ron,

TBH, from your hp-check I cannot spot anything incorrectly set up. To be sure, it would not be a bad idea to set up a print queue for the F340 in another way and test. Issue this command from a terminal:

lpadmin -p f340 -v hp:/usb/Deskjet_F300_series?serial=CN662FG1YB04KH -E -m drv:///hpcups.drv/hp_deskjet_f300_series.ppd

That is all on one line.

Now print with

lp -d f300 /etc/nsswitch.conf

That should give a single portrait page. I cannot account for what you are getting with abiword, unless it is the application or the way you are using it.

--
brian.

[Ron (swamp-rh)]

Brian

     My printer is a LaserJet P1006. I've had it since 2012 and has
worked just fine; however, hp has taken control of printing, so much for
open source.

On 2020-02-17 6:04 a.m., brian_p wrote:
> Hello Ron,
>
> TBH, from your hp-check I cannot spot anything incorrectly set up. To be
> sure, it would not be a bad idea to set up a print queue for the F340 in
> another way and test. Issue this command from a terminal:
>
> lpadmin -p f340 -v hp:/usb/Deskjet_F300_series?serial=CN662FG1YB04KH -E
> -m drv:///hpcups.drv/hp_deskjet_f300_series.ppd
>
> That is all on one line.
>
> Now print with
>
> lp -d f300 /etc/nsswitch.conf
>
> That should give a single portrait page. I cannot account for what you
> are getting with abiword, unless it is the application or the way you
> are using it.
>

[brian_p (claremont102)]

> My printer is a LaserJet P1006.

I took the trouble to read though your 'hp-check -t' output
in your first post here. Perhaps you can do the same.

I am not prepared to continue with any more debugging.

[Ron (swamp-rh)]

Thank you for your time.  I going to uninstall and reinstall - reminds
me of MS.

On 2020-02-17 1:08 p.m., brian_p wrote:
>> My printer is a LaserJet P1006.
> I took the trouble to read though your 'hp-check -t' output
> in your first post here. Perhaps you can do the same.
>
> I am not prepared to continue with any more debugging.
>