Installing an HP Multifunction on ArchLinux

Hello colleagues, here is a small guide on how to install an HP multifunction in ArchLinux.

First of all we must install some main packages:

sudo pacman -S cups ghostscript gsfonts hplip

After installing these packages, we proceed to create the services and start them.

Start:

sudo systemctl enable cups.service

Start:

sudo systemctl start cups.service

If they did not do it during installation, we must add our user to the group lp and the group scanner:

sudo gpasswd -a scanner

sudo gpasswd -a lp

Once we install the packages, and add our user to the aforementioned groups, we only have to configure the printer.

sudo hp-setup

The previous command requires some libraries to run, if you don't want to install them, and do the configuration from the terminal, just add -i to the command.

sudo hp-setup -i

The screen it shows us is quite intuitive.

How surely it is a USB multifunction, just give [enter] in the first command, and then answer a few simple questions, where you can give the device a name, and if you want to specify a place. For example: Multifunction 1, living.

Once finished, it would be necessary to install some software to scan, since we can print from wherever we are, Libre Office, and so on.

I particularly prefer Simple-Scan

sudo pacman -S sane simple-scan

It will install some dependencies.

When you finish installing if you open simple-scan, it surely tells you that it does not find any device, now we solve it.

sudo sane-find-scanner

Once it finds it, it is necessary to proceed to uncomment a line of sane.

sudo nano /etc/sane.d/dll.conf

In the end, we uncomment the line that says hpaio

So it is:

#hpaio

It should look like this:

hpaio

We save and close.

Now yes, we test the scanner, we can do it via terminal:

sudo scanimage -L

Or we go into simple-scan and scan something.

That's all for now, I hope it helped. Any questions, you know 😀

Greetings.

Ivan!