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You will need super-user privileges to configure a printer. See the section called “Root And Sudo”. |
Launch
→ →Click on the New Printer button.
A druid (aka wizard) will be presented to you that will guide you through setting up a new printer.
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After clicking forward, there may be a several minute wait. |
To manage printers in the terminal, CUPS provides the commands lpadmin, lpinfo, lpoptions. Please refer to the CUPS online manual Managing Printers from the Command-Line for detailed information on how to use these commands.
To check if your printer has been detected correctly, do:
lpinfo -v
To add a printer, do something similar to:
lpadmin -p DeskJet -E -v parallel:/dev/lp1 -m deskjet.ppd
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If you experience problems getting your printer to work, you may consider installing gnome-cups-manager. It is available by the usual manner described in the section called “Adding, Removing and Updating Applications” and will offer a nice graphical tool to set up your printer. WARNING: installing gnome-cups-manager will bring in many dependencies to the Gnome desktop, thus increasing the installed size of your system. It is therefore not recommended to install gnome-cups-manager on Xubuntu. In some cases, however, it may be worth the trade-off to get your printer working. |