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Originally Posted by solissydney
Thanks for your concerns.
10.1 on installing, without input by me says 'downloading printer driver - installing, no problem.
13.1 auto install like 10.1 says looking for proprietary driver - installing' - nothing
I hear the printer making a click through USB when testing telling me the connection is ok.
As in the past I went into the site suggested by one of you. but was unable to find the correct HP printer type, it was not listed there. Trying a couple of them and then went looking for my model it did not show up.
N model? Yes as per above. it is a Scanner and Printer combined.
Thanks for trying
Ken
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Hi Ken,
When you select the System Tools->Printers menu does it appear in the list of printers
available (see images below)?
According to the link below, if you use HPLIP, only USB is supported for the HP LaserJet m1120
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web...m1120_mfp.html
So when you went through this auto install for 13.1 -
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web...all/index.html
I gather you are saying it bombed-out at the device discovery?
Just by way of background, according to this web site, your model looks like what we refer to as a GDI printer -
http://reviews.cnet.com/multifunctio...-35259549.html
GDI stands for Graphics Device Interface. Historically, higher-end printers have enough memory,
internal processing power and the right firmware to support a printer emulation such as HP's
PCL (Printer Command Language) or PostScript. In these higher-end printers the PC will send
it a series of commands such as "print this character using this typeface" and the controller within
the printer will interpret those commands, convert it to a bitmap within its own own memory and
then rasterize the page line by line as the printer prints.
GDI printers are "dumber" in the sense that the rendering of the page is done by the host computer
and what it transmits to the printer is the actual bitmap. The printer and PC have to chit-chat whilst
this is going on with information like whether the printer is ready to print.
Historically, when memory was expensive, GDI was seen as a way to make cheaper printers.
The downside was that the processing had to be done within the PC. As PC's became faster
this then no longer became a burden but the fact remains that GDI printers typically require
more software to be working on the PC side before they can print compared to their PCL/PostScript
counterparts.
This is a long-winded way of saying that your printer is of the type more likely to make the user
have to jump through a few more hoops to get it to interface than compared to a generic network connect PCL or PostScript printer.
If your exact model does not appear, there may be another similar HP printer with a compatible GDI interface
that you can select.
Best Regards
Gary
