(yet another) Help connecting Tumbleweed to HP printer

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So, I have the same problem as many before me, but I wasn’t able to find a solution that worked for me in the old threads…

I’ve just installed Tumbleweed and I need to connect to my HP Deskjet printer-scanner. I know it is compatible because my previous laptop, which was also running Tumbleweed, was connected to it. However, even with the history of my previous laptop, I wasn’t able to reproduce the process that allowed me to do that successfully.

I have all hplip-related packages installed, but the search (from YaST → Printers or from HP Device Manager or from su --c "hp-setup") doesn’t show my printer. It is suggested that there is an issue with the firewall (and I never understood much about Linux firewalls…).

I’m trying to connect across a Wi-Fi network, to which both my computer and printer are connected (I know the printer is connected because I can print through network from other devices).

Can anyone help…?

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one thing I’ve found is that if your connecting to the printer wirelessly you will want to set the printer up with a permanent IP address. outside the normal range for DHCP. this will ensure the printer address does not change when other item are added to the net work.
I also often use hplip-gui to set up my printers works well.
Good luck.

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While you are in the process of discovering/adding the printer, you could stop the firewall temporarily (assuming active).

sudo systemctl stop firewalld

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It was!
Amazing, that did the trick. So simple! I thought I remembered way more complicated commands related to the firewall… I’ve bookmorked your answer I’m sure I will need it again in the future.

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Good for testing but you really need a firewall active. You need to open the recommended ports for the printer

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Well, since I restarted the service right after adding the printer (and it still works…)
Maybe you can share more information so that I see why I would do something with the ports?

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You don’t need to once you have CUPS configured manually for your printer. You can allow mDNS/DNS-SD for service discovery if desired, but not required for this context.