For basic printing functionality use the Postscript PPD. For advanced functionality such as printer status and maintenance features, use the HPLIP driver (which includes HPIJS).

Consumables/Refills: 1 toner cartridge for each color, imaging drum

User Notes

Important! The PPD given here is broken (see bottom of this page on how to fix it)

======================== CORRECTION =================================
Consumables and Refills are only the Q6000-Q6004 Series Colour Toner
Cateridges - There is no imaging drum needed to be replaced - the 
drum assembly is located in each individual cateridge.
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<spam deleted>

By default the printer prints to Tray1, which is the Manual Feed tray.  
If you don't like this default behavior, you can change the default tray
from Tray1 to Tray2, that is the proper solution.  In the PPD find the
DefaultInputSlot line and tweak it, like this:

*DefaultInputSlot: Tray2


========================= SOLUTION ==================================
To fix the problem with a manual feed change the following line:
*InputSlot Tray1/Tray 1: "
	<</MediaPosition 3 /ManualFeed false>> setpagedevice"

to:
*InputSlot Tray1/Tray 1: "
	<</MediaPosition 0 /ManualFeed false>> setpagedevice"
-Kevin
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This printer was a bear to get running Under CentOS v5.0 (Final),
but I got it running with the network interface using both a CUPS interface and
an HP (Foomatic) interface.  
Set up the "port" as a socket using the HP jetdirect and the IP address on your local
network. define the printer model as: HP Color LaserJet v2013.114 Postscript (recommended).
Try the test page! It will look great and function well. No tray selection problems either.
Both the CUPS interface and the generic postscript interface work well.
-Mitch W2MKB


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This printer works great in Linux as it does in Windows but there is something wrong with the 
custom PPD file that is provided below. It cannot auto print in Linux. When ever you try to print
in Linux it sends it to manual feed and you must press the green check mark in order to print. You 
don't have to do this in Windows. I have the HP 2605DN model which I first setup via the USB port 
running cups then set it up as a network printer. Both setups produce the same result. Every time 
you print in Linux you must press the green check mark in order to print. The print results are 
amazing I cannot tell the difference in the quality of print from Linux printing or Windows 
printing. 

Can anybody provide a fix to resolve this issue.

Thanks

Cpoc

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I can confirm this issue, I am also using a 2605dn.

This printer is installed on the cups server using the ppd provided on this site, if a windows client 
prints to the cups server using the 2605dn windows postscript drivers from the hp site it works correctly.
If a Linux client prints to the cups server using the default drivers for this printer 
(for me on Kubuntu Linux it is Foomatic/Postscript) the job sits on the printer and you have to manually 
hit the button on the front of the printer telling it to proceed using the default paper tray 
(the printer being used in our situation only has one paper tray).

-Drew

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Took me a few minutes to find a workaround. Just download the custom ppd file from this page.
(Sorry this is Gnome specific) launch gnome-cups-manager (System -> Administration -> Printing, right click the printer, choose properties, Drivers,
install drivers, select the ppd file. Now check the printer settings make sure tray 2 is the default. For any gnome apps when you print, 
make sure to set it to Tray 2 and plain paper under page setup...

-SafariBans

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I too have a 2605dn.

Even with the custom ppd file you recommend, SafariBans (and thanks for looking into it), unfortunately
the problem still persists (I used tray 2 and plain paper also).  The LED readout on the printer wants 
me to load A4 when I try to print a test page, even though I've banished the "A4" settings from 3 places,
choosing "letter" size instead:
- /etc/papersize
- in the gnome-cups-manager (System -> Administration -> Printing, right click the printer, 
choose properties, "Paper" tab, Paper size
- in the gnome-cups-manager (System -> Administration -> Printing, right click the printer, 
choose properties, "Advanced" tab, PageRegion

Note: I didn't have this problem when I had Ubuntu Edgy Eft, but now I do have the problem 
with Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn!  Somehow things seem to have regressed...

- Dustin

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I was able to go into the CUPS 'Set Printer Options' and set the default tray to Tray 2, as the user 
SafariBans did above.  It works shared out with the windoze clients as well.

-brad

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I have the 2605dn,
And it is having problems with Debian 4.0 and the Gnome-cups-manager.
I have loaded the custom ppd from above, and it shows in the gnome tool.
Could someone go through the installation procedure for this printer?
What is the printer address and type of printer for the 2605?
Somehow the Fedora 6 implementation works out of the box, but the Debian fails.
I tried cups and lpr settings, but perhaps I have set it incorrectly.
Local DNS calls the printer NPIA so I have tried NPIA, http://NPIA, ipp://NPIA, http://NPIA/ipp,
under cups and lpr. I have also tried the IP address in all the locations.
Would someone share their install path?

== USE HPLIP == I just found the solution, use the automatic HPLIB, it worked well.

Many Thanks

-John
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Hey John, 

try to use socket://$PRINTERNAME 

BR
Martin

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Hi guys:
I have a troubble. I want install my printer 2605dn in Linux Ubuntu. But this printer
is connected in another printer with Windows Vista.
HPLIP is installed in my Linux Ubuntu.

Alan

Dear Alan,

you have to share the printer with SMB under windows to use it with other computers. 
In Linux you have to use an smb-client therefor. Just google :) 

@all,
if you have to press the ok button that the printer starts printing, 
you have the problem that you say print as letter in the menu and the printer 
has only a4 paper in it. Just change the option and you can print without 
pressing the button. 

BR Martin
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Hello all: 
I have very mysterious bug whit this printer.
Cant find the source of the problem either.

We have the printer 2605DN that is connected to the network, then we set up 
a samba printer sharing on our debian based server (using cups).

Everything is working fine. But sometimes the printer lists bullshit from windows clients.
For an example: The CMYK images go printed in different positions from each other.
Meaning: Magenta and Cyan lists ok, but yellow gets listed with a 1 cm displacement.
This is a very strange behavior. And we try-d printing from 3 different windows clients.
Whit the same results. So we restarted the printer, and then printed the document again 
from one of the previous clients, and it worked fine.

Other exemple happend alsow whit MS Office, we printed text from word on letters, arranged in tables,
and when the printer printed some of them, they apeared whit all the table borders. Same, 
after reseting the printer, everything worked fine again.

Iosef
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Hello everybody,

I have this printer under Kubuntu Festy, everything
work fine.

Enjoy,
Max
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I installed the 2605dn printer on Debian 4.1 etch by running the hplibs utility:
sudo hp-setup

Click through the installer and it finds and installs your printer automatically.
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 Installed the printer with ppd file and is running perfectly. Only thing which bothers me
I can't print photos in borderless mode.

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I`m using the 2605dn (duplex) printer together with CUPS on Linux 
and the PPD-File provided here

*HPBuildNumber: "009"
*LanguageVersion: English
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*PCFileName: "HP2605.PPD"

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to turn off duplex printing.
I set duplex off in CUPS but this has no effect. 
When inspecting the print options with the command line tool 

lpoptions -l -p <printer>: 

PrintoutMode/Printout Mode: Draft *Normal High
PageSize/Page Size: Letter *A4 11x17 A3 A5 B5 Env10 EnvC5 EnvDL EnvISOB5 EnvMonarch Executive Legal
PageRegion/PageRegion: Letter A4 11x17 A3 A5 B5 Env10 EnvC5 EnvDL EnvISOB5 EnvMonarch Executive Legal
InputSlot/Media Source: *Default Tray1 Tray2 Tray3 Tray4 Tray5 Tray6 Tray7 Manual
Manualfeed/Manual Feed of Paper: *Off On
Copies/Number of Copies: *1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 
REt/REt Setting: Dark Light *Medium Off
TonerDensity/Toner Density: 1 2 *3 4 5
Economode/Toner Saving: FromPrintoutMode *Off On
PrinterResolution/Resolution: FromPrintoutMode 300x300dpi *600x600dpi 1200x1200dpi

I was not able to detect any duplex printing option. Is there something wrong with the PPD-file?

- Stefan
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If loading the PPD file you see in the logs this error:

Missing value string on line 122.

edit the file and change line 122 from:
*CloseUI *HPCollateSupported
to:
*CloseUI: *HPCollateSupported

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