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Hi,

I managed to get my HP LaserJet 1020 working with arch,it works perfectly but I still have the lettersize paper issue,that is I just can print in A4 papersize,there should be foo2jzs patched drivers that are able to print in lettersize but i can’t help you here.Probably there are better way to make it works but you know at least it works:)

- Install cups following the wiki
- add a user called “lp” to your system ( you don’t need this if you can build the drivers without an lp user on your system,I couldn’t)
-wget http://support.ideainformatica.com/hplj1020/foo2zjs-patched.tar.gz
-tar , cd , make and as root make install ( you can’t install f there is no lp user,maybe a debian thing)
-as root make install-udev
- powerup your printer,it will make noises twice,the second time is the firmware loading
-pacman -S hplip, start hplip deamon
here’s the odd thing,if you don’t have hplip you get client-error in cups
-restart cups —>DO THIS
-add your printer in cups using hp://whatever as device uri,chose laserjet 1020 foo2js drivers,configure printer and chose A4 as papersize then try to print…it will

When you restart your system the printer will fail to print if you don’t have hplip running. So if your printer prints with hplip but you don’t want to start it at boot just modify your printer again and chose usb://something as your device uri and it will work.