How To Install printer-driver-hpijs on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install printer-driver-hpijs on Debian 9. printer-driver-hpijs is HP Linux Printing and Imaging - printer driver (hpijs)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install printer-driver-hpijs on Debian 9.

What is printer-driver-hpijs

printer-driver-hpijs is:

This package contains an IJS printer driver for Ghostscript, which adds support for most inkjet printers and some LaserJet printers manufactured by HP. It is also required for HPLIP fax support.

The Debian package of hpijs includes the so-called rss patch, to use pure black ink instead of composite black in printers that don’t do color map conversion in firmware.

HPIJS can take advantage of Ghostscript IJS KRGB support when available, to enhance black printing on printers that do color map conversion in firmware and are thus not affected by the old rss patch.

Users of the CUPS printing system are advised to also install the hplip package, and use the hp CUPS backend to send data to the printer. HPLIP supports USB, networked and parallel-port devices, and enables extended HPIJS functionality such as border-less printing. Selecting any hpijs ppd in CUPS will use hpijs automatically.

HPIJS is meant to be used through the foomatic system (see the foomatic-filters package or foomatic-rip in the cups-filters package).

There are three methods to install printer-driver-hpijs on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install printer-driver-hpijs Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install printer-driver-hpijs using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install printer-driver-hpijs

Install printer-driver-hpijs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install printer-driver-hpijs using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install printer-driver-hpijs

Install printer-driver-hpijs Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install printer-driver-hpijs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install printer-driver-hpijs

How To Uninstall printer-driver-hpijs on Debian 9

To uninstall only the printer-driver-hpijs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove printer-driver-hpijs

Uninstall printer-driver-hpijs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall printer-driver-hpijs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove printer-driver-hpijs

Remove printer-driver-hpijs Configurations and Data

To remove printer-driver-hpijs configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge printer-driver-hpijs

Remove printer-driver-hpijs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove printer-driver-hpijs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge printer-driver-hpijs

Dependencies

printer-driver-hpijs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install printer-driver-hpijs package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.