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R.M. Klippstein

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HP Deskjet 3635 need a workable driver
« on: April 11, 2025, 11:51:39 pm »
Ive tried everything I  can think  of - no cigar ! Several ive tried get the light on the printer blinking, but never feed a printed sheet of paper, printer just hanges with the light blinking. Any help will be appreciatedd. Thanks
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Re: HP Deskjet 3635 need a workable driver
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2025, 01:00:51 am »
According to https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/supported_devices/index this model is supported in hplip 3.15.6

The current code at bww is above this - so it *should* work

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Re: HP Deskjet 3635 need a workable driver
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2025, 06:51:33 am »
Hi R.M.

Have you installed the hplip packages?
If "No" use ANPM to install hplip and that should pull in all the other required hplip and cups packages.

Then check there is a CUPS Daemon in the Startup folder.
If not create 1 with Path and file name: cmd.exe Parameters: /c detach cupsd.exe

Use prndrv.exe to remove any traces of previous failed printer installations and queues - http://www.os2site.com/sw/comm/faxworks/prndrv.exe

Doubleclick on CUPS Daemon then, with printer powered on, fire up a browser and go to http://localhost:631/admin and see if you can create a working printer.


Hope the above helps

Pete


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Re: HP Deskjet 3635 need a workable driver
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2025, 10:35:07 pm »
Hi Paul,How are the dogs? I lost my German Shepard  (3 years ago)  to old age. I now have a Jack Russell Terier pup thats turning ot to be a a real handfull!  Last time yyou bailed me out was years ago trying to make VirtualBox for OS2 bootThanks for help in the past now again in the future.. I'm using 5.1.0 withe the newer drivers and I agree it sould work but it dosen! Next I gotts try what Pete suggested.

Pete: Great to hear from you again-Thanks.  Yes I have installed the hplip package;
CUPS Dame is in the startup folder.
I now need to locate and run pprndrv.exe. I see the install installed a driver and guess it has to be removed.. I'll get to that asap and proceed. I'm sorrry to be so slow and really areciate the help I'm pretty old now (88)  and legally blind so it takes me forever toget anything done!

AGAIN-- Thanks to both you and Paul for bailing me out over the past years.

klipp








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Re: HP Deskjet 3635 need a workable driver
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2025, 01:09:41 am »
It looks like the CUPS Damon in the startup folder is not getting activated, doing it by hand and the printer prints a page with a black line accross the top of the page. I guess I need to know what is the correct driver to use with this printer. Any ideas which driver I should be installing?

Thanks  klipp

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Re: HP Deskjet 3635 need a workable driver
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2025, 04:36:00 am »
Hi klipp

Might be easier to "walk" you through creating a printer as it seems something went wrong on your previous attempt(s).

With CUPS Daemon running and Printer powered on:-

1] Start Computer -> Printers -> Install Printer

2] Select Install a local or network printer (CUPS-based) and click Next

3] The "Create CUPS Printer" window should appear, select HP then select Deskjet 3630 Series hpijs and click Next

4] The printer should then be detected and displayed, make sure it is selected and click Next

5] Complete Printer Name and Location then click Next

6] The "Confirm Create Printer" window appears, Make sure Create Pinter is checked then click Create

7] Close the Create Printer dialog


You should end up with a printer with the correct driver for the Deskjet 3630 Series in the Printers folder

A simple test: open a browser and load http://localhost:631/printers then click on your printers name. The next page has a dropdown box called Maintenance, select Print Test Page from that dropdown list.

Let us know if the above worked for you.


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Re: HP Deskjet 3635 need a workable driver
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2025, 09:18:08 pm »
Hey Pete! Still on printing but at least  we know whats going on now. All print jobs are being witheld  apparantly because there is no color manager! I took this printer off my server where it worked fine but never used color. I put a new color cartridge in but still dott work, Color Doesnt work, I never used color on my server -- uugggghh! So I;ll put it back on my server and get a new non-HPPrinter. What are you using for printing? I;;ve had it with HP Printers. seems non  of them feed paper properly.
   That website you suggestd for testing a installition is really neet . Thanks for suggesting it, It
pointd out the problem!. I don;t know what to buy as a replacment for OS2 printer, any ideas?
Appologies and thanks for your help, turns out as usual "self inflicted disaster"

klipp

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Re: HP Deskjet 3635 need a workable driver
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2025, 09:45:29 pm »
Good day Klipp,

With my printer – Brother MFC-9970CDW – I had to activate lprportd in the TCP/IP settings.

I used a printer driver from a Linux package and integrated it into the system via CUPS.
Without lprportd, the printer showed no interest at all.
Now it prints beautifully – in both colors and shapes!

Many thanks to everyone.
Wishing you all the best and much success!

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Re: HP Deskjet 3635 need a workable driver
« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2025, 08:22:57 pm »
Might I propose a Brother printer that uses the BRScript postscript  - You can then use Alex Taylor's PSprint driver which saves messing about with cups.  Both my Brother printers (DCP-9020cdw and HL-3170cdw are quite happy with it on my network using the internal BR-Script interface.

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Re: HP Deskjet 3635 need a workable driver
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2025, 04:27:35 pm »
Hi klipp

I'm using a HP Envy Photo 6234 which works very well for printing with cups/hplip and scanning with sane/hpaio.

I think the message you get about no color manager could be a "red herring". I seem to recall a similar problem years ago with a Canon printer but cannot remember the exact fix, very possibly there was something missing in the cups setup at that time.

I suggest that you get a cups debug log and post it here and, hopefully, with a few people looking through it the problem may get spotted.


Did you try creating a printer following instructions in my previous post? - might be worth a try.


Regards

Pete