[xubuntu-users] Printer query

[Neil Winchurst]

On 18/05/13 22:38, Mark Clayton wrote:
>
> I'm running xubuntu 12.10 and I don not have samba (SMB) services
> running. I do have Avahi services running but I don't think that
> matters. I believe that CUPS handles it's own broadcasting and
> communication through IP port number 631.
>
>  From Settings Manager->Printers, I clicked "Add". In the next dialog, I
> expanded "Network Printer". I picked the server with the printer to be
> shared. In my case "little-harbor", in your case pick your desktop
> computer. In the right hand side, a list of shared printers were
> displayed. I selected the one I wanted to connect to. I was prompted to
> print a test page which worked.
> In the final printer setting window, the location of the printer lokks
> like so:
>
> dnssd://Dell%20Laser%20MFP1815%20%40%20little-harbor._ipp._tcp.local/cups
>
> How does this compare to what you did? Have?
>
> HTH,
> Mark Clayton
>
I am running Xubuntu 12.04 not your version. This is the version that 
has problems according to my research on the internet.

So, for me, Settings Manager does not include Printers. I have to go 
Menu --> System --> Printing. I have already set up printer sharing in 
Cups for both the desktop computer (with the printer attached) and the 
laptop. When I go as above I see an icon for the correct printer already 
there, with a tick on it. This was exactly what happened with earlier 
versions of Xubuntu.

To me that appeared as if the printer was found and ready. But as I have 
already explained the laptop does not find the printer when I try to 
print a file. It says that the printer is not connected.

My original query, way back, was to ask if this problem had been sorted 
for v 12.04. It would appear not. When I installed v 12.04 on all our 
computers it was because it is an LTS release. Perhaps I should have 
chosen v 12.10, which, as it happens, was already available at the time.

Oh well, never mind. To get round it I send an email from the laptop to 
the desktop with the file attached. I then go to the desktop and print 
the attachment. It works!

Neil