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

[Frans de waal]

18.04 seems to ask for a clean install mostly, delete all but home folder
before installing and it.'ll install without problems.

On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, 07:36 Anton May <antonmay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jan
>
> Yes I did fix the printer problem. Strange I've been running 18.04 on my
> work and personal laptops with no issues. I'm happy with 18.04 so far.
>
> Anton
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 07:30, Jan <jan at verslank.net> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>> 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
>>> Mobile   +2783 588 0028
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>>
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>> Anton May
>>
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