hp laserjet 1020 doesn't work

Look at the following page. Perhaps it can help you:

http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1020

What do you mean it doesn't work? It silently fails to print? It gives an error message? How did you try to install it?

I have the same printer in ubuntu 6.06, and it's detected and installed via add printer. Every application can detect it and print to it. The problem is that the first page that rolls out is blank and the rest of the pages come out perfectly. This happens no matter what application I print from. I've tried firefox, lyx, and evince, all leave the first page of the job blank. There is no error message, only a blank first page of the job.

This issue has been discussed by others and someone else has posted what they claim to be a fix at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1546952&posted=1#post1546952

Martijn van de Streek wrote:
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Sourcepackagename: None => hplip
>
>
Does this mean support for the Laserjet 1020 been added to hplip?
According to this:
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/unsupported.html it's
not, and I looked in recent release notes which doesn't mention support
for 1020 having been added.

The HP LaserJet 1020 is NOT supported by HPLIP. I have corrected the package to which this bug report is assigned.

Can you please post the output of the commands

ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend
sudo usb_printerid /dev/usblp0
sudo usb_printerid /dev/usblp1
grep -A4 cupsys/backend /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
ls -l /dev/usblp*

and the file

/proc/bus/usb/devices

Please also attach the output of the printingbug info script. The
printingbug info script can be found here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrintingBugInfoScript.

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> The HP LaserJet 1020 is NOT supported by HPLIP. I have corrected the
> package to which this bug report is assigned.
>
> Can you please post the output of the commands
>
> ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend
> sudo usb_printerid /dev/usblp0
> sudo usb_printerid /dev/usblp1
> grep -A4 cupsys/backend /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
> ls -l /dev/usblp*
>
> and the file
>
> /proc/bus/usb/devices
>
> Please also attach the output of the printingbug info script. The
> printingbug info script can be found here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrintingBugInfoScript.
>
>
> ** Changed in: hplip (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: hplip => foo2zjs
>
>
First, let me say at some point around January I tried some instructions
on how to get the 1020 working, which I found somewhere on the
Internet. The printer is now working pretty consistently.

Anyway, I attached two text files containing the output you request the
output which you requested.

== System information ==
Ubuntu Release: 6.10 (edgy)
Architecture : x86_64
Kernel : 2.6.17-11-generic
Locale : LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8, LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
/etc/papersize: a4

== Configured printers ==
LaserJet-1020: HP LaserJet 1020 Foomatic/foo2zjs (recommended)
device for LaserJet-1020: usb://HP/LaserJet%201020

== Versions of important printing packages ==
ii cupsys 1.2.4-2ubuntu3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.0.0-2ubuntu2 printer drivers for CUPS
ii foomatic-db 20060918-0ubuntu2 linuxprinting.org printer support - database
ii foomatic-db-engine 3.0.2-20060925-0ubuntu1 linuxprinting.org printer support - programs
ii foomatic-db-gutenprint 5.0.0-2ubuntu2 linuxprinting.org printer support - database
ii foomatic-db-hpijs 20060925-0ubuntu1 linuxprinting.org printer support - database
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20060918-0ubuntu1 linuxprinting.org printer support - filters
ii gs-common 0.3.9ubuntu1 Common files for different Ghostscript relea
ii gs-esp 8.15.2.dfsg.0ubuntu1-0ubuntu4 The Ghostscript PostScript interpreter - ESP
ii hpijs 2.6.9+1.6.9-0ubuntu2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS drive
ii hplip 1.6.9-0ubuntu2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
ii ijsgutenprint 5.0.0-2ubuntu2 inkjet server - Ghostscript driver for Guten
ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.12.1-5ubuntu1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - runtime f

Created with printingbuginfo script v1.3 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrintingBugInfoScript)
Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:37:44 -0400

acorrigan@linux-igloo:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend
total 212
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7199 2006-09-22 00:39 beh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12384 2006-10-20 13:31 bluetooth
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12544 2006-09-27 06:41 canon
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12584 2006-09-27 06:41 epson
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23288 2006-10-13 13:37 hp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9012 2006-10-13 13:37 hpfax
-rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2511...

The foo2zjs which comes with Edgy should fully support the printer. Important is to install the printer's firmware file, see bug 65618.

On Feisty a tool to easily download the firmware file is added. If you have Feisty, do

getweb 1020

to download the firmware file.

After downloading the firmware file I had to convert the downloaded file from a sihp1020.img file to 1020.dl file

I used this command: sudo arm2hpdl sihp1020.img > sihp1020.dl

Then I had to copy it into /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1020.dl

Then I switched the printer on, and added the printer to the computer printers and it worked

[Expired for foo2zjs (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]