Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Updating HP Printer Firmware from Linux

HP LaserJet printers provide a number of ways to update the system firmware, some of which are easier or more effective than others.  My favorite method so far: use curl to upload the new firmware via FTP.

First, download the firmware file from HP's support website. Then, just push it to the printer...

curl -T ./hp_firmware_file.rfu ftp://myprinter.mydomain

Can be scripted to run in batches too. :)

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