Jaunty: How to install a USB printer?

[marc]

Ric Moore said:

> On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 21:29 +0000, marc wrote:
>> Lisi Reisz said:
>> 
>> > On Thursday 07 May 2009 17:05:28 marc wrote:
>> >> The problem is that there's nothing to inform me what the URI should
>> >> be. I have no idea, as I very, very rarely print - I have a strict
>> >> (as possible) no paper policy.
>> > 
>> > I didn't have to tell CUPS the URL of my printers - CUPS finds them
>> > and tells me where they are.  (It even picks up printers connected to
>> > other computers in the network and can happily print on them.)
>> > 
>> > There does indeed seem to be something a little strange going on. :-(
>> 
>> I don't understand how a URI of:
>> 
>>   parallel:/dev/lp0
>> 
>> is going to work for a usb printer. That's what is produced. But then
>> there are no other options except parallel port or network printer. I'm
>> surely not the only person out here with a usb printer!
>> 
>> Does anyone know how I can go about construction the URI for the usb
>> port?
>> 
>> Presumably, it's something like:
>> 
>>   usb:/...
> 
> Huh, my HP printer has been running with USB for 3-4 years. Marc, I just
> noticed that I don't even have my USB printer plugged in. I had the
> machine down for the weekend and haven't plugged it's USB cable back to
> my printer. Ergo, to my system I have no printer at all. The CUPS page
> came right up in Firefox though.

No, CUPs is fine; in that it runs and :631 displays, etc.


> Your localhost does resolve to 127.0.0.1?

Yes.
 
> But this may shed some light... When I worked at RedHat, I could never
> get my Ex's printer to work. Darn embarrassing to be on the Help Desk
> fixing everyone elses printers. We had one whizbang that fired up emacs,
> had ten terminals with code pouring down the screens like the matrix.
> Impressed me! Then he started narrowing down the problem to samba not
> being configured correctly. I'm going she doesn't NEED Samba and I
> ripped it out. The printer worked right off. Samba was trying to network
> a printer that hadn't been configured correctly for the system. The cart
> before the horse, so to speak. You can rip out Samba, after saving
> config files if you need it or rip it out for good if you don't need it.
> One less thing in the way.

I'll give that a spin. Thanks.

-- 
Best,
Marc