[ale] Linux Mint 17 Not Recognizing Printer Device

[Sergio Chaves]

Maybe this will help? It seems like it is the same issue you have described.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1315408

>From the post, somewhere in the middle of the page:
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WORKAROUND: use hplip from ubuntu 13.10 (use "sudo su -")

1) Remove hplip of 14.04 (for some reason apt-get won't do that
automatically)
apt-get remove hplip

2) Add repo strings for 13.10
cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/saucy.list <<EOF
deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy main restricted
deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy universe
deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy multiverse
EOF

3) apt-get update

4) install hplip of 13.10
apt-get install hplip=3.13.9-1 libhpmud0=3.13.9-1 libsane-hpaio=3.13.9-1
hplip-data=3.13.9-1 printer-driver-hpcups=3.13.9-1

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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Stephen R. Blevins <
stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com> wrote:

> I seriously doubt hplip is the root problem.  The more I work with this
> the more I am inclined to think it's a USB problem.  It doesn't seem to
> matter which USB socket I plug it into, it doesn't show up under lsusb, or
> lshw.  I've been having flakey "permission to mount" issues with
> thumbdrives, too.  None of these issues appear on any forum I am familiar
> with.
>
> More suggestions?
>
> Stephen R. Blevins
> stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
>
> On 11/25/2014 10:37 PM, Sergio Chaves wrote:
>
>> I had the same issue with a Ubuntu box sometime ago.  The problem was a
>> broken hplip package (did you have an update done recently? ). The
>> solution was to download the package from the HP site and install it.
>> Others reported that rolling back to an older version would also work. I
>> did not try that.
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2014 3:15 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     do other usb devices work?
>>
>>     On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Stephen R. Blevins
>>     <stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com <mailto:stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com>>
>>     wrote:
>>
>>         I have three systems, one running Linux Mint 13 (32 bit), and
>>         two that are running Linux Mint 17 (32 bit).  I have a
>>         USB-attached printer (HP 895Cse Desket) that these system
>>         suddenly ceased to recognize. Attempting to delete the printer
>>         definitions and re-install it doesn't work (the printer is not
>>         recognized as being attached to the system and, therefore,
>>         available).
>>
>>         What has me confused is that my Dell Inspirion 1525 laptop,
>>         running Linux Mint 17 (64 bit) does recognize it.  I can't
>>         convert my other systems to 64 bit because their hardware won't
>>         support it.
>>
>>         What am I missing?
>>         --
>>         Stephen R. Blevins
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