Printer not detected with GIMP

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I have a HP Envy 6020e Printer & this works perfectly with Manjaro Gnome & all apps I have used so far such as Evince, Document scanner, LibreOffice, Gthumb, Firefox

EXCEPT Gimp ~ It does not detect the printer at all & only shows “Print to file” in the apps printer dialogue.

Another forum post shows the same issue, but it seems that person was using AppImage. I don’t think mine is app image, I’m sure I just installed it from Pamac. Pamac says Repository: extra but I’m not sure how I can conclusively tell.

The Gimp team on reddit has suggested that Arch builds of Gimp may not include printing support. So I thought it was time to ask here & see if others are able to print with GIMP?

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You need to install gutenprint package. Is an optional dependency for GIMP. http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

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That is already installed.

Gimp does have a “Print with Gutenprint” option, but there was no Envy 6020e in the HP list & I couldn’t find a way to proceed.

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Load the PPD file via from the installed driver you have, via Browse in the Print Setup window, from Gutenprint menu that will open the window

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so then, Setup

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Ive never done this before or had to deal with PPD, so forgive my ignorance.
There is no driver I have installed, its part of the kernel afik. The printer was set up on my wifi network & immediately started working on my system without doing anything.

I looked on HP but since I am using Linux there are no drivers to download or mention of PPD

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Not sure i follow. The Linux kernel does not have HP printer drivers.
hplip package should be installed on your system, then you have inside /usr/share/ppd/HP/ the PPD files. I guess there should be the /usr/share/ppd/HP/hp-envy_6000_series.ppd.gz that you can use in your case.

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OK. So I did not have hplip installed.
After installing it I am able to select the file /usr/share/ppd/HP/hp-envy_6000_series.ppd.gz as in your screenshots.
However, this doesn’t seem to work. The dialog says 'printer model none, please provide a PPD, even after I have selected it & clicked OK.

I am now attempting to use the HP-set up app & see what happens.

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Maybe you have to extract the .gz file and use the extracted file …

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OK. Its working now, a bit of a messy setup.

In HP-Setup app I chose the CUPSweb setup & added the printer which the web interface had detected on the network.
This duplicated the printer in my Gnome settings > Printer, so I had 2 of the same printer. However now GIMP shows the printer in the regular print dialogue.
I noticed it was showing my original printer name & not the duplicate, so I deleted the duplicate & it seems now the situation is resolved.

I did not complete any of the gutenprint steps & that section still says no printer. But the regular Gimp > Print has the printer & it works.