I know an unfriendly printer. Helping a friend install Ubuntu on her computer I experienced problems with the hp Deskjet 3653 printer. It was not automatically detected by Ubuntu versions Breezy (5.10) or Gusty(7.10). When I replaced the hp Deskjet 3653 with a hp Deskjet 6112, however, it was automatically detected, and printed the test page successfully.
I found a work around for the hp Deskjet 3653 printer on Ubuntu forums, [url]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsPrintersHp%5B/url%5D%C2%A0 (see last line below*), but it did not work for me. I found other posts complaining about the 3653. For example this on from IAmMe1, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4321732#post4321732, "I know this is a somewhat common problem, but I can't find a good solution that works for me... My HP DeskJet 3653 won't print. First of all, I have the printer connected to a USB port in the back of my box, but when I try to add a printer, the printer doesn't show up under detected printers. I manually select a location, then select the hpijs driver. There seem to be no other problems, until I try to print... It says that the printer has a job, but it's not doing anything. Any ideas on how to solve this?"
Make: HP Model: DeskJet 3650 Driver: hpijs Supported: No Works: Yes Version: v5.04 (Hoary) & v5.10 (Breezy) *Not detected. Have to choose it from the list in Gnome printer install.
Michael Morgan [email protected]