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Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

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On 09/18/2016 06:10 PM, brian wrote:
> My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet
> P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that
> it's recognised (USB connection, not wireless) but the problem is that
> it apparently needs a *proprietary* plug-in to print properly.
>
> I have H-Ps installer, and everything goes OK up to the point at which
> it goes to an unspecified H-P site to download the plug-in. The
> installer then claims that the file it tried to download has an
> invalid checksum and may have been modified, and that's it, the
> program exits. Substantially the same thing happens if I use hp-plugin
> outside of the installer, it just tells me that it can't download the
> file due to an invalid checksum.
>
> H-P support are as much use as a chocolate teapot, all they will do is
> to point me back to the site where I can download the installer again.
> I have tried to point out to them that it appears to be a corrupted
> file on their website (if I believe the error message!) but it gets me
> nowhere.
>
> Anybody got any ideas before I package the printer up and send it back
> to Amazon to exchange it for another brand? I'm using 64-bit testing,
> should anyone feel that makes a difference.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian.
>
>
I think you are better off with a wifi router and a printer with an 
Ethernet connection. I have an HP LaserJet PPro M-201dw that works 
nicely with no problems.

--doug

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Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?  brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-09-19 00:20 +0200
  Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? rlharris@oplink.net - 2016-09-19 00:40 +0200
    Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-09-19 01:00 +0200
      Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-09-19 01:40 +0200
        Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 19:40 +0200
          Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 20:30 +0200
            Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 20:30 +0200
    Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 08:40 +0200
      Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? gianluca <gianlucarenzi@eurekelettronica.it> - 2016-09-19 09:30 +0200
        Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 11:20 +0200
          Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 12:10 +0200
  Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-19 01:10 +0200
  Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-09-19 02:00 +0200
  Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 08:30 +0200
    Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-09-19 10:50 +0200
  Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 10:40 +0200
    Re: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-09-19 12:00 +0200
      Re: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-09-19 12:20 +0200
      Re: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 15:50 +0200
        Re: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com> - 2016-09-22 01:20 +0200
          Re: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-09-22 10:30 +0200
            Re: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 12:30 +0200
              Google [was: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED] [slightly OT] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-22 13:00 +0200
                Laserjet p1109w - FIXED [back OT :)] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-22 13:50 +0200
                Re: Google [was: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED] [slightly OT] deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 14:30 +0200
                Re: Google [was: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED] [slightly OT] Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 15:20 +0200

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