how to install printer on x-less ubuntu?

Gabriel Dragffy dragffy at yandex.ru
Thu Nov 16 12:19:28 UTC 2006


Thanks a lot for that, at least I know which man page I should even be
looking at now :)

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:41 -0800, Mitch Contla wrote:
> Gabriel Dragffy said the following on 11/15/2006 03:16 PM:
> > As per subject - what area should I even be looking under?
> >
> > I have an HP880C and configuring it under Gnome is a snap, but I wanna
> > connect it to a print server. I'm stumped.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gabe
> >
> >   
> You can use lpadmin from a shell prompt like this:
> 
> $ sudo lpadmin -p HP-880C -E -v parallel:/dev/lp0 \
> -m linuxprinting.org-gs-builtin/HP/HP-DeskJet_880C-cdj880.ppd -u allow:all
> 
> This assumes the printer is connected at parallel. If you are connected
> to the printer in some other
> way, you can get info on available device uri's using lpinfo:
> 
> $ lpinfo -v
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Mitch
> 
> 





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