Printer/printing support in Lubuntu

[w1zard]

Hello!
I'm pretty experienced with Ubuntu/Gnome, but have limited experience with Lubuntu/LXDE.

I'm loving the new Lubuntu alpha - fast, clean and stable - except for one small problem - printing.

Can anyone point me in the right direction - what libraries do I need to install, what terminal commands will add/configure printers, etc. I would like to print to my wireless HP printer. This works out of the box in Ubuntu, but I think the required libraries (or certainly the GUI) is missing for this in Lubuntu.

Any help much appreciated!

[Marty Jack]

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html

[w1zard]

Thank you for the quick reply - you pointed me in the right direction and I've got the printer working perfectly now

For others trying to figure this out, support for my wifi-connected HP 6980 printer was installed using:

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sudo apt-get ghostscript cups hplip hplip-gui

then setup using:

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hp-setup -i

A restart may be required between these two commands to get the services running, although I didn't need one for it to work.

I couldn't use the .run file provided on the site you linked to, as it doesn't recognise Ubuntu 10.04 yet, so cannot resolve the dependencies automatically. The apt-get commands above do this instead.

Thanks again for the link - I've been going round in circles for days trying to work this one out. I've been spoiled by the ease of built-in printer support in Ubuntu

[allerjoyce]

I know a little about ubuntu, but I know little of Lubuntu. there must be some connection between the two.