HP LaserJet 1020 doesn't work out of the box

[Uwe Siems]

Binary package hint: foo2zjs

[The HP LaserJet 1020 is a GDI printer, but works e.g. with SuSE 9.3.]
1. The firmware wasn't there and the user wasn't told about it - well, looking in the syslog probably would have revealed the problem, but a dialog with instructions where to get the firmware would be nice. Looking into /var/log/cups/error_log just showed that some printing processes had crashed.
2. /usr/bin/hplj1000 didn't load the right firmware. It seems to need a command /bin/usb_printerid which isn't installed by default (but I didn't really look that close into the problem). What I did instead:
- Removed the line
DEV=""
in /usr/bin/hplj1000. This hardcodes the printer device to be /dev/usb/lp0. Obviously this won't work for everybody.
- Made a link named hplj1020 point to hplj1000 in the same directory
- Changed /etc/udev/rules.d/11-hplj10xx.rules to call hplj1020 instead of hplj1000 when a LaserJet 1020 is plugged in.
Then it works.

[Uwe Siems (usiems)]

Ah, I forgot, this is with Ubuntu 6.10.