He opened LibreOffice, hit Ctrl+P, selected the HP M401dn, and clicked Print. The printer woke from sleep— whir, click, fuser warm-up —and spat out ten double-sided pages in under thirty seconds.
“Linux printing test page — HP LaserJet Pro 400 M401dn”
hp-setup The tool scanned the network. For a moment, nothing. Then—a green highlight. hp laserjet pro 400 m401dn driver linux
He remembered the old rule: HP and Linux go way back. Then he recalled the name: – HP’s Linux Imaging and Printing project.
The printer hummed. Paper fed. And then—clean, sharp, perfect text appeared: He opened LibreOffice, hit Ctrl+P, selected the HP
sudo apt update sudo apt install hplip A few hundred packages downloaded. He ran the GUI setup tool:
hp-levels -p /dev/usb/lp0 And it worked. Every single time. For a moment, nothing
The printer sat three feet away from his desk—a sturdy, gray HP LaserJet Pro 400 M401dn. It was the workhorse of the small journalism office: duplex printing, networking, 1,200 pages of toner at a time. But to Marcus’s Linux laptop—running Ubuntu 22.04—it might as well have been a brick.