{"id":692,"date":"2015-02-13T15:22:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T15:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zensonic.dk\/?p=692"},"modified":"2017-04-09T10:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T10:02:27","slug":"upgrading-hp-laserjet-4250-fw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading HP LaserJet 4250 fw"},"content":{"rendered":"

To my joy I noticed that my HP LaserJet 4250 had an ancient FW. Not that the newer firmwares provided anything useful in my case. Neither bugfixes for bugs that I was hit by, or features that I longed for. The process of FW upgradinga HP LaserJet 4250 to a newer FW is actually quite simple. Here goes<\/p>\n

[code]<\/p>\n

zensonic@x230:~\/Downloads$ wget ftp:\/\/ftp.hp.com\/pub\/networking\/software\/pfirmware\/lj4240_4250_4350fw_08_250_2.rfu<\/p>\n

zensonic@x230:~\/Downloads$ ncftp 192.168.1.242
\nNcFTP 3.2.5 (Feb 02, 2011) by Mike Gleason (http:\/\/www.NcFTP.com\/contact\/).<\/p>\n

Copyright (c) 1992-2011 by Mike Gleason.
\nAll rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Connecting to 192.168.1.242…
\nFTP Server Ready
\nLogging in…
\nHewlett-Packard FTP Print Server Version 3.0.
\nDirectory:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Description:
\n————————–
\nPORT\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 hp LaserJet 4250<\/p>\n

To print a file use the command put <filename> [portx]
\nor ‘cd’ to a desired port and use put <filename>.<\/p>\n

User logged in.
\nLogged in to 192.168.1.242.
\nncftp \/ > bin
\nncftp \/ > mput lj4240_4250_4350fw_08_250_2.rfu<\/p>\n

lj4240_4250_4350fw_08_250_2.rfu:\u00c2\u00a0 ETA:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 0:00\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 16.68\/ 16.68 MB\u00c2\u00a0 277.63 B\/s<\/p>\n

[\/code]<\/p>\n

And then the printer rebooted yielding.<\/p>\n

\"hp4250\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To my joy I noticed that my HP LaserJet 4250 had an ancient FW. Not that the newer firmwares provided anything useful in my case. Neither bugfixes for bugs that I was hit by, or features that I longed for. The process of FW upgradinga HP LaserJet 4250 to a newer FW is actually quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4,33,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-projects","category-hardware","category-upgrade","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}