Debian 12. HP Laserjet Professional P1606dn

If it prints at all, it prints the top inch of the test page or just random binary. I have tried the recommended driver, the driverless driver, the Generic PCL 4/5 driver, the Generic PCL 6 driver. And probably others I am not remembering.

I am trying to print over Ethernet, but I am about to drag the printer over near my desk and print via USB.

Fortunately, I don’t have actual critical printing to do right now and I am only setting up a printer after installing Debian 12. BTW this means it is a fresh install of Debian 12 too.

I have been helpdesk support at a data center. I would not consider myself a dummy, but this is getting ridiculous. A task that should have taken all of 10 minutes has taken over 2 hours so far.

How are we ever going to get “The Year of Linux on the Desktop” if simple printing is and continues to be such a pain?

  • WasPentalive@lemmy.oneOP
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    1 year ago

    I bought this printer years ago. It has worked fine most of the time up until now. Perhaps this is what I get for installing the latest Debian.
    I had a Canon multifunction that absolutely refused to work with Linux. Who sells Linux friendly printers?

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      1 year ago

      As mentioned by another commenter, Brother sells out of the box working on Linux printers.

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      1 year ago

      Both of the Brother printers I have are completely plug and play on Linux… no set up at all. As soon as I had them connected to the network, I got a popup saying a new printer was available.