[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu HP deskjet 1515 printer "filter fails"

[Jan]

Hi Anton May, if I read correctly between the lines, you managed to sort 
Charles' problem out, well done!

Seems like the Ubuntu 18.04 upgrade is going to lead to further loss of 
Ubuntu users. My own experience of 18.04 was short-lived and made me run 
fast, back to 16.04 Unity, even before the printer issue surfaced. Now 
my mind is set on having a good look at Mint when next I consider an 
upgrade, which will probably only be when support for 16.04 is phased out.

On 2018/10/26 07:20, Anton May wrote:
> Update to the community, looks like a bug in upgrading from 16.04 to 
> 18.04. Please refer to 
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1081885/printer-stopped-working-after-upgrade-16-04-to-18-04
>
> Anton
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 13:26, Charles IRONS <irons.charles at gmail.com 
> <mailto:irons.charles at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Ubuntu-za
>
>     I am a retired end user of Ubuntu since 2004 but at age 79 I need
>     help and I expect to pay for it.
>
>     Does anyone live near me in Northcliff Johannesburg??
>
>     I live in 46 ELM PARK VILLAGE, 1 SUZANNE CRESCENT< NORTHCLIFF
>     Very near ElCorro shops where Weltevreden Road becomes 14th Avenue.
>
>     I hope there is an expert among Ubuntu-za members who can sort out
>     my printer configuration.
>
>     My printer does not print since I upgraded Ubuntu to 18.04.1 about
>     10 October 2018.
>
>
>     I have followed advice in over 30 emails from several guys using
>     ubuntu-users list without success.
>
>     I still do not know much about linux or cups or debian.
>
>
>     The error "Filter failed" keeps appearing.
>
>     Launchpad bug #35248 looks similar so I finally read some of the
>     advice in
>     https://wiki.debian.org/DissectingandDebuggingtheCUPSPrintingSystem
>     and started to do some diagnostic steps but got very lost.
>
>
>     The printer works well if I switch to Windows 7 but that is little
>     use because that has very few apps in it.
>
>     I only use Win 7 for SARS efiling .
>     I am quite sure this problem can be solved but I only have the
>     skills to do terminal commands that I can copy and paste.
>
>
>     I also tried the simple fix shown in launchpad bug #35248:
>
>     sudo sed -i 's/HP (HPLIP)/HP/' /usr/share/ppd/hplip/*
>
>     The result is:
>
>     sed: can't read /usr/share/ppd/hplip/*: No such file or directory
>
>     Please help me get this printer to work again--
>
>     Thanks & kind regards . Chas
>
>     Our preferred address is
>     irons.charles at gmail.com <mailto:irons.charles at gmail.com>
>     Mobile   +2783 588 0028
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>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Anton May
>

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