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<h1 class="title">Installation Troubleshooting</h1>
<p><strong>Issue 1: 'hp-makeuri' fails to find my network printer</strong></p>
<p>Solution:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li>Determine the IP address of your printer by printing out the network configuration page (or if you know it or can determine it in another way)</li>
<li>Run:</li>
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$ hp-makeuri &lt;ip-address&gt;
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$ hp-makeuri 192.168.1.1
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<ol class="arabic simple" start="3">
<li>This will result in a device URI printed to the console. For example:</li>
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hp:/net/Officejet_9100_series?ip=192.168.1.1
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<ol class="arabic simple" start="4">
<li>Copy this device URI</li>
<li>Open the CUPS UI:</li>
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http://localhost:631
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<p>(or YasT, etc) and install the printer by pasting the generated URI.</p>
<p><strong>Issue 2: There is no listing in CUPS or my printer installation tool for the exact model number of my printer.</strong></p>
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<li>Check to see if there is another model in the list that is in the correct &quot;series&quot;. For example, a &quot;DeskJet 5510&quot; will use a &quot;DeskJet 5500 Series&quot; driver. In general, you &quot;round down&quot; the model number that appears on the case of the printer to the next lowest number that is available in the software.</li>
<li>If this doesn't work, visit this page and follow the instructions to download and install a new PPD file for your printer: <a class="reference" href="http://linuxprinting.org/">http://linuxprinting.org/</a></li>
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<p><strong>Issue 3: I've plugged in my USB printer, but it doesn't show up in the CUPS interface.</strong></p>
<p>Solution:</p>
<p>Restart CUPS. There are two basic methods: (Note: You must be root to execute these commands)</p>
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# /etc/init.d/cupsd restart
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<p>or:</p>
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# killall -HUP cupsd
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<p><strong>Issue 4: I can 'ping' my network printer but 'hp-makeuri' won't generate a device URI for it.</strong></p>
<p>Solution:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li>Check to make sure SNMP is properly installed. Check your distribution documnetation on how to do this.</li>
<li>Check your network firewall and make sure it is configured so that access to port 9100 is not blocked.</li>
<li>Make sure the printer is powered on, and that the network cable is pluged into the printer and configured correctly.</li>
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<p><strong>Issue 5: I am sharing a printer from another Linux machine using CUPS and I am unable to print to it.</strong></p>
<p>Solution:</p>
<p>This configuration is currently unsupported in HPLIP. To print in this configuration, use HPIJS only.</p>
<p><strong>Issue 6: I am sharing a printer from a Windows machine and I am unable to print to it.</strong></p>
<p>Solution:</p>
<p>This configuration is unsupported currently in HPLIP. To print in this configuration, use HPIJS only and the SAMBA backend (smb:)</p>
<p><strong>Issue 7: I am trying to setup my printer in SUSE using CUPS and am having problems.</strong></p>
<p>Solution:</p>
<p>To install on SUSE, unless you have created a CUPS admin, you must use YaST. Otherwise, printer setup using CUPS will fail. Follow the YaST instructions in the Installation Instructions section.</p>
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