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Installing hp photosmart 1115 - prints giberish

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#1

Hey everyone I am trying to install my hp photosmart 1115 on my ubuntu machine but it won't seem to work. I use the gnome printing manager to install the printer and it detects it fine but everytime I try to print a test page nothing but giberish comes out. Now I have looked on the hp website for a solution and there is no answer. I made sure the correct version of all the dependencies are installed. The only thing I can think of is that hplip 0.9.5 is incompatible with my printer but I have found nothing really indicating that. There are versions 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 of hplip but I don't know if installing these manually will solve my problem. If anyone has a similar problem please let me know

Cheers Mike

#2

PS. its connected by a parallel cable not usb

#3

i have one that is usb. only thing i can get from it is the test page. thanks