Hplip HP 1102w Laserjet install failure

here is how i made this printer to function.

First

Hp-setup could not detect my printer P1102W.

The reason was that the file models.dat contained the wrong name:

Hp_laserjet_professional_p_1102w instead of

Hp_laserjet_professional_p1102w

This file is located at /usr/share/hplip/data/models

It seems that other printer names are also misspelled in this file, the all seems to have the extra underscore in the name…it looks intentional

Second

The required plugin could not be installed

This can be resolved by two simple commands:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/x86_64-linux-gnu

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