hp laserjet 1200

[paul cooke]

On Thursday 22 December 2005 19:12, mjewell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 22:40 +1100, Sasha Tsykin wrote:
> > Have you used the HPLIP drivers or the ones which came with Ubuntu. If
> > you're using the standard ones,then change to the HPLIP drivers. You can
> > get them from hpinkjet.sourceforge.net
>
> THANK YOU!  It sounds like I am using the wrong driver.  I haven't
> changed drivers before using Ubuntu.  Are there instructions for getting
> the package from Sourcefourge and installing it automatically or does it
> need to be done from a terminal?

the instructions are here:

http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php

and yes, you will need to get down and dirty with a command prompt ;)

note, for the debian instructions, use sudo before every command that requires 
root. sudo don't work in Ubuntu unless you've set a root password.