HPLIP 3.26.4
HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) is HP's official driver and utility suite for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP printers and all-in-ones on Linux.
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HPLIP is HP’s own driver and management toolkit layered on top of CUPS, providing the actual print queue drivers plus scanning support (via SANE) and fax capability for supported all-in-one devices. Most distributions bundle HPLIP by default or make it trivially installable, but current releases from the project itself often support newer HP hardware ahead of what’s packaged in a given distribution’s repositories.
What’s Included
Beyond the raw print drivers, HPLIP ships a graphical device manager (hp-toolbox) for checking ink levels, running alignment and cleaning routines, and managing scan settings, functionality that would otherwise require HP’s Windows-only software.
Installing
chmod +x hplip-3.26.4.run
sudo ./hplip-3.26.4.runThe installer detects your distribution and pulls in the appropriate CUPS and SANE integration automatically. Most users on mainstream distributions can instead just install their distro’s hplip package (sudo apt install hplip on Debian/Ubuntu), which is simpler and still current enough for most existing hardware.
When to Use the Official Installer Instead
Reach for the run-file installer specifically when you have a newer HP printer or scanner that isn’t yet recognized by your distribution’s packaged HPLIP version, since HP’s own releases typically add new device support well before distro packages catch up.
Verify Your Download
Checksums are published on the HPLIP SourceForge page.