HP printer always need to reinstall driver

[Joakim B]

Binary package hint: hplip

After upgrading to Natty on an Acer laptop which earlier ran 10.10 successfully, my HP Laserjet 1020 printer asks for driver reinstallation after every reboot.

A notification popup is shown, "Proprietary driver required" and then the hplip automatically ask if it should download. If I accept, the driver is redownloaded and reinstalled. If doing nothing and/or exiting the hplip installation, the printer won't work.

Tried different printer drivers but without success. In 10.10 i just connected the printer, the hplip installation appeared once and everything worked great after.

I've also tried to invoke the printer installation by running sudo hp-plugin-ubuntu and thereby giving it full privileges, but nothing changes.

[Marko Vnučec (marko-vnucec)]

My slight variation of this problem is outlined here:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/33075/hp-laserjet-1020-always-asks-for-driver-install

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Looks like bug #817309, still a problem with foo2zjs 20110210dfsg-1ubuntu2.1 from natty-updates ?

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Bug #783389 is the master bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Srikanth (srikanth-lokare)]

Hi,

Can you please try updating the patches on Ubuntu 11.04. Please refer the below bug for more information.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foo2zjs/+bug/783389

Thanks and Regards,
Srikanth Lokare