Just curious to know if anyone has successfully gotten one of these M254dw
printers to work under Fedora (or any Linux distro for that matter). The
hplip-3.18.12 version that comes with Fedora supposedly supports this
printer; the release notes say support for the M254dw was introduced
several minor versions prior to this one.
However, it doesn't work for me. If I use the recommended Postscript driver
when configuring the printer, then attempting to print images just prints a
Postscript error page, and attempting to print text in duplex results in
only the front side of the first page printing. Needless to say, the
printer works fine under Windows 10, so it's not a hardware issue.
There is a newer version of the driver (3.19.5) that can be downloaded, but
the installer craps out. It first prompts me for the root/superuser
password, but then proceeds to use sudo (which would presumably need MY
password, not root's; trying to give my password results in a complaint
that it is not correct). All the commands where it tries to use sudo report
failure, although if I run them manually, they work. So it is clearly
confused about whether it should be using su or sudo to run commands. This
is obviously a bug in the installer, but HP's "file a bug" link points to
the Launchpad site (where Ubuntu bugs are reported). I don't know if HP
will even see what I posted, and I'll most likely just end up looking like
a dork for posting about a Fedora issue on the Ubuntu reporting site. And
in the end, there's no guarantee that the later version will work any
better than the Fedora-packaged one; it just seemed worth a shot.
I'm mainly curious to know if anyone has this printer working under Fedora,
and if so, how you configured it.
Thanks,
--Greg