HP Laserjet P1102w driver-plugin

[Jerry Lapham]

On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:50:06 AM Bruce Marshall wrote:

> On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 02:14:57 AM Jerry Lapham wrote:
> > I have a new HP Laserjet P1102w and though it works fine with a USB
> > cable, I'm  having trouble getting it to work wireless.  When I try to
> > download and install the driver-plugin with HPLIP, I get "Plug-in
> > install failed."
> > 
> > The alternative is to "select and install an existing local copy..." 
> > Since the printer works with USB, do I already have one?  If so, where
> > and what is the file name?  If not, does anyone here have it?
> > 
> >         -Jerry
> 
> You sure you need a driver???

Apparently.  I have it set up as a USB printer and that works.  It also 
appears as a printer option when I go to print something and it does work with 
the USB cable connected.

What I'm trying to do is set it up also as a wireless printer.  (The P1102w 
does not have an ethernet interface.)  It's when I try to install it as a 
wireless printer that I need the proprietary driver-plugin.

After several email exchanges with HP support in which they kept referring me 
to the web site with HPLIP (which I already have), they gave up and told me 
they only support Windows.

The question is:  What does the driver-plugin do?  It doesn't seem to enable 
the wireless connection; my router can see the printer as an attached device.  
But if it's just a print driver, I would think I already have it for the USB 
printer.  But if so, where is it and what's its name?

	-Jerry
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rjlapham at gmail.com
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