HP LaserJet p1005 stopped working after upgrade

Question

I have a problem that's been bugging me since Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2:

My printer (a HP LaserJet P1005) have been installed and working in Ubuntu 10.10. After upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1, it still worked, but after receiving updates from that point on, it never printed a single sheet ever since.

It's displayed as set up, working and ready to print, but hitting the print button does absolutely nothing. It won't even print a test page. This problem goes for BOTH of my laptops. Upgrading to the final version of Natty didn't help either.

Since I saw no printer icon on the top bar, I tried logging on to Ubuntu Classic, but this did not work. I even tried plugging in a different printer. That didn't work either.

How can I resolve this problem?

Solution

did you try to install hp software (as i know there is an hp driver and tool for linux) but before you install it try to remove the printers already define by ubuntu check here http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html and try maybe it will work if it does not work and you mention that another printer also didn't work then it looks like a cups problem try to reinstall from the synaptic

Comments

[Bob Newm'n]

AWESOME!! I owe you BIG TIME! After running the installer from your link, it prompted me with some missing packages which I found and installed from the package manager. After a reboot, the printer was up and running. AWESOME! How do you vote an answer up in this forum??

[Bob Newm'n]

arh, them little arrows ;) one upvote coming your way!!!!

[Alkalyzer]

Thanks a lot @Bob Newm'n and @nadeem ! Your solution also worked for my network Laserjet P3005dn printer.