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Printer/printing support in Lubuntu

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:36 pm
by 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!

Re: Printer/printing support in Lubuntu

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:48 pm
by Marty Jack

Re: Printer/printing support in Lubuntu

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:37 pm
by w1zard
Thank you for the quick reply - you pointed me in the right direction and I've got the printer working perfectly now :D

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 :)

Re: Printer/printing support in Lubuntu

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:54 am
by allerjoyce
I know a little about ubuntu, but I know little of Lubuntu. there must be some connection between the two.