Printer Setup on Ubuntu: Not the Friendliest
More on my non-techie experiments with running an Ubuntu desktop on our Windows network here at IT Business Edge. All in all, setting up a printer was a little more geeky than what I encountered during my initial OS setup.
After about an hour of trial-and-error, I was able to send test jobs to our HP 5100 network printer over the Windows SMB protocol, although no matter what changes I make in the Properties box for my printer, I can’t get the jobs to run to anything but the manual feed tray. I’ve done some digging and I don’t believe it’s a driver issue — you can’t get much more commodity than an HP 5100, so you’d expect the drivers to be solid in a relatively new OS install.
Ubuntu seems to be perfectly happy to keep printing to printers that don’t actually exist on the network.
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