Category Archives: Printing

Adding New Printers Manually

Printers are normally detected automatically, though in the case of older printers and network printers, you may need to add the printer manually. In this case click the Add button and select Printer. A New Printer window opens up displaying … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Printers remotely accessed from Windows

On an older Windows system, like Windows XP, you can use the Add Printer Wizard to locate a shared printer on a Linux system. Locate the Ubuntu system, click on it, and the shared printers on the Ubuntu system will … Continue reading

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Default System-wide and Personal Printers

To make a printer the default printer, either right-click on the printer icon and select “Set As Default”, or single click on the printer icon and then from the Printer configuration window’s Printer menu select the “Set As Default” entry. … Continue reading

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Automatic printer detection

Printers are detected and configured automatically. For removable printers, like a USB printer, a printer icon will appear on the panel as soon as you connect your USB printer as your printer is detected and configured. If a driver is … Continue reading

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Remote Printers

You specify a printer location using special URI protocols. For a locally attached USB printer, the USB URI is usb. For another CUPS printer on a remote host, the protocol used is ipp, for Internet Printing Protocol, whereas for a … Continue reading

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