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?

  • _cnt0
    23•1 year ago

    Why is this so hard?

    HP

    There’s your problem. Buy a Brother, brother.

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 year ago

      The driverless “driver” for our Canon also seems to work well, the configuration that is lacking from it can just be done over the web interface

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      I have a Brother printer that barely works with anything, but on Linux it works perfectly fine.