HP Deskjet 3070A

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How to give the printer a static IP … you’ll have to see the printer documentation … it will be in the printer setting somewhere.

Ideally … you’ll also want to make the address you give the printer “outside” those given out by the routers DHCP pool.

So lets say your router is 192.168.0.1 … and it’s DHCP pool is set to hand out addresses between 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.254

You would want to set the routers DHCP pool to 192.168.0.2 to say 192.168.0.200

and give your printer a staic IP of 192.168.0.201 … if you get my meaning.

But obviously don’t use these addresses … use the ones YOUR network uses.

If you can give me thre routers IP, and those of the printer and ALL PC’s attached to the network when everything is working … I’ll be better placed to advise on actual IP addresses, and settings for the DHCP pool.

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I’ve now got a problem, the scanner has gone again, both the the printers work as in they will print, the 3070 is connected wireless AND wired, both methods work but will not scan.

I’ve ran hplip-3.11.10 but for some reason, as far as I can remember, the way it finished before looked OK but now it seems as if it crashes.
I downloaded the latest version - 3.12.6 and when run, it tells me that I have not got libusb and that there is a previous version, 3.11.10 so I stopped installation. Typing this, I have just realised that the hplip version number corresponds with the Ubuntu version numbers (DOH!)

Now, realising this, I see I have to uninstall the 3.12.6 version. How do I do this?
I have taken screenshots of Synaptec Package Manager and localhost. In SPM, it appears that there is no version installed and that the latest version is 3.11.7-1. Is it possible to force install version 3.11.10 via SPM?
Also, I have lost the ability to print PDF, after fixing this current problem, I will look for the thread where I installed the print to PDF.

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I've now got a problem

Dude … you seem to get more problems than anyone else I’ve ever come across :slight_smile:

The hplip version numbers have NOTHING to do with Ubuntu version numbers … that wouldn’t make sense for any other OS would it ?, and HP are not connected with Canonical.

Post a link to where you downloaded hplip from … and tell us what the downloaded file name was.

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Well, they seem to have similarity, the hplip 3.11.10 Ubuntu 11.10 and then hplip 3.12.06 Ubuntu 12.04

Post a link to where you downloaded hplip from .. and tell us what the downloaded file name was.

Don’t know whether to take that as a compliment or an insult PMSL :o ;D
I got it from the only place safe I know of, http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html

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Just realised, I didn’t include the screenshots

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Have you still got a directory with a name similar to the hplip-3.12.6.run file (probably in the same directory, and called hplip-3.12.6) ?

The hplip/ubuntu version numbers are purely coincidental … and similar to the way the moon and sun seem the same size, it only applies NOW, in the past and future it won’t be that way.

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Yes

The hplip/ubuntu version numbers are purely coincidental .. and similar to the way the moon and sun seem the same size, it only applies NOW, in the past and future it won't be that way.

:o huh!

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Analogy explained …

The moon is (and always has been) slowly moving away from planet earth … so in the past it was closer and looked MUCH larger than the sun … in the future it will appear smaller than the sun (and there won’t be any more total eclipses) … it just a coincidence that we are alive at the period where they appear the same size.

Same with Ubuntu/Hplip versions … in the past they didn’t appear to match, and in the future they won’t either…

OK, where is the directory and what’s it called ?

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Its the media/Win-MyDocs drive
My Documents/Ubuntu_Stuff/hplip-3.12.6

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Run these commands in sequesnce

cd /media/Win-MyDocs/"My Documents"/Ubuntu_Stuff/hplip-3.12.6
sudo make uninstall
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/hplip
sudo rm -rf /etc/hp
sudo rm -rf ~/.hplip
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/hp

Be VERY careful to get the last 4 commands correct.

If you get any errors, STOP, and tell me what it was and which command gave the error.

If everything goes well … reinstall hplip with:

sudo apt-get install hplip-gui

then answer this question … Did you originally give the printer/scanner a static IP address ?

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Couldn’t navigate to the directory it was in as for some reason, it could not find it so I copied the folder to home and then ‘cd’ to there

It didn’t get farl
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$ cd hplip-3.12.6
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~/hplip-3.12.6$ sudo make uninstall
[sudo] password for peter:
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall’. Stop.
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~/hplip-3.12.6$

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For some reason, from home when I type cd media/Win-MyDocs/Ubuntu_Stuff
it comes back with bash: cd: media/Win-MyDocs/Ubuntu_Stuff: No such file or directory
When I type cd media it goes there but when I type dir, all it comes back with is
Drive4
There should also be Win-MyDocs and Drive3
When in Drive4, in terminal, dir shows Ripped_DVDs but that’s been deleted and what IS in there is ‘T Downloads’ and ‘TV Series’

BUT I want the ‘Win-MyDocs’ one

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Yes, I did.

I’ve also got round the folder problem, I navigated to the folder and right-clicked to get ‘open in Terminal’ and it’s come up with the correct path now.

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But it’s still coming up with
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:/media/Win-MyDocs/Ubuntu_Stuff/hplip-3.12.6$ sudo make uninstall
[sudo] password for peter:
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall’. Stop.
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:/media/Win-MyDocs/Ubuntu_Stuff/hplip-3.12.6$

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I’m off to bed … I’ll come back to this tomorrow.

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No probs, it is late/early
nite nite

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What’s the output from:

hp-check
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OK, looks like the new version (3.12.6) never got installed … which is good, and makes things easier … for now, install hplip with:

sudo apt-get install hplip-gui

Let me know if that all installs properly … off to bed again, so will check back tomorrow.

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peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$ sudo apt-get install hplip-gui
[sudo] password for peter:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
hplip-gui is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libaiksaurus-1.2-data link-grammar-dictionaries-en libots0 librsl1 libgrits0 liblink-grammar4 libwv-1.2-3 libgdome2-0 libaiksaurusgtk-1.2-0c2a libgtkmathview0c2a libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a libabiword-2.8
libloudmouth1-0 libmpd1 libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$