Printer, again!

[Paul Lemmons]

I don't have direct experience with the HP you describe but if it is not 
already listed as a choice you could probably use the post script 
driver. As for setting it up I do this at home on my network and it is 
fairly simple and works perfectly. there is one tricky part that of you 
don't know it you will not get past it though.

- Open system settings
- Go to printers
- Add a printer/class
- Next
- SMB printer
- Go in as anonymous (this is the part that was tricky. you have to be 
anonymous to scan.)
- Scan
- Navigate the tree to find your printer and select it
--   if you need to sign-on to the computer for access, back up put in 
your credentials and then press next to get back to selection.
- select HP as manufacturer
- Select Laserjet 3030 as type (I just checked and it is there)
- Selected the recommended driver
- The rest or the prompts are fairly straight forward

If you get prompted for a password, put in YOUR password. This is sudo 
asking you to validate who you are.

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Printer, again!
From: Stew Schneider <stew.schneider at gmail.com>
To: Kubuntu Mailing List <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: 05/21/2007 04:08 PM
> I look like a perfect fool, and I'm a little unhappy right now. A 
> non-profit had some marginal computers. The Windows installations are 
> .... well... messed up. I volunteered to help, and made dual-boot 
> Kubuntu systems of them.
>
> The non-profit loved Kubuntu. Worked flawlessly, but they didn't mention 
> the need for printers. They've got a shared SMB hpLaserJet3030. I found 
> the printer in system settings, but got "Unable to load the requested 
> driver: Unable to create the Foomatic driver [name of driver]. Either 
> that driver does not exist, or you don't have the required permissions 
> to perform that operation." for both suggested drivers.
>
> I went to localhost:631, and was prompted for a password....aaarrrgh. I 
> promised to come back tomorrow early and get them going. HELP!
>
> stew
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