Can't install HP Deskjet 2540 in Ubuntu 18.04

Question

I installed hplip and hplip-data. Then I started HPLIP Toolbox GUI. I click add printer and then I get a message (see pic) that PPD file is not found. When I click browse I find some .gz file and none of them solve the issue if selected.

Then

My Ubuntu is Ubuntu 18.04

The output of apt-cache policy hplip hplip-gui:

hplip:
  Installed: 3.17.10+repack0-5
  Candidate: 3.17.10+repack0-5
  Version table:
 *** 3.17.10+repack0-5 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
hplip-gui:
  Installed: 3.17.10+repack0-5
  Candidate: 3.17.10+repack0-5
  Version table:
 *** 3.17.10+repack0-5 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Following this post, I did:

sudo apt-get install hplip-gui
hp-setup

I get a GUI for HP Device Manager. My printer is connected by USB. So I select USB then Next. Then I move to another page with title Select from Discovered Device, which shows my printer listed. I click on my printer and Next. Then I get this in the terminal.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.17.10)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0

Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Searching... (bus=usb, search=(None), desc=0)
error: No PPD found for model deskjet_2540 using old algorithm.
error: No appropriate print PPD file found for model deskjet_2540_series

What is your Ubuntu version? Please add output of apt-cache policy hplip hplip-gui to the question. According to HPLIP page you need at least 3.13.8 without proprietary driver/plugin. — N0rbert, Apr 06 '19 at 10:50
Possible duplicate of Installing HP Laser Jet Pro MFP M130nw — N0rbert, Apr 06 '19 at 13:51
@N0rbert plz see my edit. Plz provide details on how to solve the issue? — user9371654, Apr 07 '19 at 14:11
Make sure you have installed hplip-data package, then run hp-setup and follow the wizard guidance. — N0rbert, Apr 07 '19 at 14:18
hplip-data is installed. Plz see EDIT 2 for desription of what I get. — user9371654, Apr 07 '19 at 14:20
" and none of them solve the issue if selected." well they clearly have "fax" in the name so that should not be a surprise. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/cosmic/en/man1/driverless.1.html can be used to create a ppd but I do not know what the succes rate is for that — Rinzwind, Apr 07 '19 at 14:25

N0rbert · Answer 1 · 2019-04-07T15:10:01.447

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It should simply work without PPD file. It is not declared in /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat even in latest HPLIP 3.19.3.

So you need to install all HPLIP stuff with

sudo apt-get install hplip-gui hpijs-ppds

and then follow hp-setup wizard.

If hp-setup fails, then try install all known printer drivers with

sudo apt-get install printer-driver-all

and use system-config-printer.

edited Apr 07 '19 at 15:10

answered Apr 07 '19 at 15:04

N0rbert

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I followed every step. When I run system-config-printer I click "Add" button it asks for authentication to fetch device (it seems for network printers). But my printer is USB. – user9371654 Apr 09 '19 at 18:37

Can't install HP Deskjet 2540 in Ubuntu 18.04

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