Installing Printers in Linux - CUPS, Printing, and Scanning - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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moreach13
Hi Chris, I'm hoping you'll help out an 81 yr-old -early adopter'. I seem to have somehow messed up my Envy (HP) printer! It worked fine for years, still scans and saves, prints its own files, but it stopped in mid-print, coughed a little and has never printed (from my files) again! POW! Part of the trouble is that my Mint is -Betsy- (v 2) and my guru has gotten too old to run over and re-up me. Eventually I'd like to upgrade my Mint, too.
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Hi Chris, I'm hoping you'll help out an 81 yr-old -early adopter'. I seem to have somehow messed up my Envy (HP) printer! It worked fine for years, still scans and saves, prints its own files, but it stopped in mid-print, coughed a little and has never printed (from my files) again! POW! Part of the trouble is that my Mint is -Betsy- (v 2) and my guru has gotten too old to run over and re-up me. Eventually I'd like to upgrade my Mint, too.
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Bill
You're skipping the same critical information that the documentation skips. What is the point of using a Cups server from a Windows client when the Windows client has good drivers for the printer and can access it directly over the network? Also if you did decide for some reason to use the Cups server from a Windows client, what driver do you specify to make it work through Cups?
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You're skipping the same critical information that the documentation skips. What is the point of using a Cups server from a Windows client when the Windows client has good drivers for the printer and can access it directly over the network? Also if you did decide for some reason to use the Cups server from a Windows client, what driver do you specify to make it work through Cups?
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sportster88
Chris doesn't mention it in this video but you need to make sure your distribution of Linux is supported by a particular printer before you buy it. I'm running PCLinuxOS and have been trying to get a Samsung M2835DW printer to work correctly for over 8 months. Setting up a printer is complex enough without adding compatibility issues to boot! BUYER BEWARE!
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Chris doesn't mention it in this video but you need to make sure your distribution of Linux is supported by a particular printer before you buy it. I'm running PCLinuxOS and have been trying to get a Samsung M2835DW printer to work correctly for over 8 months. Setting up a printer is complex enough without adding compatibility issues to boot! BUYER BEWARE!
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Daniel
as a general rule of thumb I always recommended HP for Linux. However, just based on me reading various troubleshooting sites it seems to me that Brother has done quite a lot work to support printing and scanning on linux and a fairly simple installation process as well (gui based). Anyone here experienced with Brother multifunction laser printers on Linux?
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as a general rule of thumb I always recommended HP for Linux. However, just based on me reading various troubleshooting sites it seems to me that Brother has done quite a lot work to support printing and scanning on linux and a fairly simple installation process as well (gui based). Anyone here experienced with Brother multifunction laser printers on Linux?
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Nik
For anyone that's curious about a comparative study between Arch and Ubuntu, Ubuntu and Mint are easier with their printing. It's a plug-and-play maneuver, and that's all there is to it.
I have a network HP printer. Linux Mint worked instantly with my network printer. Arch and Manjaro, on the other hand, have not worked with my HP printer.
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For anyone that's curious about a comparative study between Arch and Ubuntu, Ubuntu and Mint are easier with their printing. It's a plug-and-play maneuver, and that's all there is to it.
I have a network HP printer. Linux Mint worked instantly with my network printer. Arch and Manjaro, on the other hand, have not worked with my HP printer.
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v8pilot
You lost me at 4:42. I clicked 'add print'. My printer (Kyocera FS-1041) is connected by USB to the computer. The cups interface gives me
Local Printers: -
O Serial Port #1
O Serial Port #5
O HP Printer (HPLIP)
O LPT #1
O HP Fax (HPLIP)
I've no idea how to proceed from here....
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You lost me at 4:42. I clicked 'add print'. My printer (Kyocera FS-1041) is connected by USB to the computer. The cups interface gives me
Local Printers: -
O Serial Port #1
O Serial Port #5
O HP Printer (HPLIP)
O LPT #1
O HP Fax (HPLIP)
I've no idea how to proceed from here....
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Isaac
This video is exactly why normal people will never use Linux. If Linux wants to become mainstream, this shit needs to just work. This is unbelievably unacceptable. Linux try hards that don't understand why people still use Windows are so amazingly out of touch with reality.
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This video is exactly why normal people will never use Linux. If Linux wants to become mainstream, this shit needs to just work. This is unbelievably unacceptable. Linux try hards that don't understand why people still use Windows are so amazingly out of touch with reality.
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Dora
How specifically do you tell it what DRIVER to use, what is WRONG with you all. Not just you. NOne of you tell us what we most have to know! You said use a particular driver but all you told us how to sest up is a ppd file - which is nothing but tell it how to format.
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How specifically do you tell it what DRIVER to use, what is WRONG with you all. Not just you. NOne of you tell us what we most have to know! You said use a particular driver but all you told us how to sest up is a ppd file - which is nothing but tell it how to format.
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John
This is out of date. The CUPS interface no longer looks like that and it does not see my Epson ET 15000 that is ethernet connected. There is no USB port on the Epson 15000. It's wireless or ethernet, no other options except a telephone fax connection.
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This is out of date. The CUPS interface no longer looks like that and it does not see my Epson ET 15000 that is ethernet connected. There is no USB port on the Epson 15000. It's wireless or ethernet, no other options except a telephone fax connection.
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ahmed
Thanks Chris. I started with cups, on the third line: sudo systemctl start cups,
I read this: System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to connect to bus: Host is down
What should I do? Thanks.
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Thanks Chris. I started with cups, on the third line: sudo systemctl start cups,
I read this: System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to connect to bus: Host is down
What should I do? Thanks.
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