Ok so recently I got surprised by this issue. Unfortunately it is not fixed in 13.10 and I don't believe it will be in 14.04 either. The "changing driver" workaround did work for me.
The strange thing was, I installed the latest HP drivers on windows xp and I got the exact same behavior! And also none of HP's troubleshooting tools were able to help. Only by a lot of googling did I have the luck of stumbling onto this bug report. So I'm guessing that since this printer is old it's not really tested anymore, and the technical documentation that is used by both the windows and hplip teams is wrong. I have a normal K550 and a K550dtn and would like to see this fixed. I can setup a machine with remote access to both, and am willing to try debug builds of hplip, so if you're interested please say so. Finally, this Bug #879667 seems to be a dupe of this one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to hplip in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/981473 Title: HP Officejet Pro K550 fails to print in Ubuntu Status in HP Linux Imaging and Printing: Confirmed Status in “hplip” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I am having an issue with an Officejet Pro K550: 1) Issue started under Ubuntu 11.04 2) Under Ubuntu 10.10 on same laptop printer work's fine 3) Currently running latest hplip updates under 12.04 4) And I have HP Device Manager installed and working. When attempting to print or run a test print - job starts and always gets an inch or two down the page and then stops. Error code in HP Device Manager is always 5012 - Device Communication Error. I upgrade to hplip 3.12.4 and same things still happend. I have never logged a bug under Launchpad before but I can follow technical instructions if laid out clearly. Looking forward to a response. Update: Also happens in 12.10 and 13.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/981473/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
