HP Printer setup with Cups & hplip

[Divya Ranjan via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>]

Hello,

I’m trying to get my HP LaserJet P1108 to work with Guix. It previously worked well with hplip and some some plugin I believe. Currently there’s several issues, when I do `lsusb' I get P1102, not P1108. I don’t know how that is happening. Next, when I print something by selecting the printer, mind you, when selecting the printer from system printing dialog, I see P1108. After selecting and clicking print, I see my printer’s LED blink once and then nothing happens. The desired thing is that the LED keeps blinking and then the printer takes the paper in.

In my operating system’s services list, I have this s-expression:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
(service cups-service-type
		    (cups-configuration
		     (web-interface? #t)
		     (extensions
		      (list cups-filters hplip-minimal))))
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

and I have hplip and hplip-minimal as packages in the system profile. Cups works as expected, when I go to localhost:631 I see my printer and the jobs that have been queued. I’ve tried the hp-setup to setup the printer again, nothing changes. I’ve tried other hp scripts like hp-check, hp-doctor, hp-diagnose_plugin etc. they don’t work either.

Regards,
-- 
Divya Ranjan,
Philosophy, Mathematics, Libre Software.