I have a headless RaspberryPi Zero W that I wish to use as a server for remote printing so my neighbours and myself can have a common printer. The printer unfortunately is an HP LaserJet 1020 - the one my neighbour has happily given to me. But setting it up as a remote printer has been a _horrible_ experience for me.

I'll write down a few of the commands I have tried to get it to work.

First I made sure that the laptop is connected to the laptop with the command :

```
lsusb
```

When I could see the HP printer I proceeded with:

```
sudo apt install cups hplips printer-driver-foo2zjs printer-driver-foo2zjs-common printer-driver-foo2zjs
```


From my laptop browser, I went to :631 and added the HP printer. Selected the driver. Checked the Shared Printer option.

Now, I rebooted the pi, re connected the printer, and tried to print something via my Linux Mint laptop. no luck

Then, I read around and found that I need to run the command:

```
sudo hp-setup
```

So, I ssh'ed back into the pi and tried to run this command and the entire pi crashed.

Has anyone managed to get this darn machine working nicely?

We're all Linux users, so I don't need to install samba and all that.


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1 Jun 2026 10:49