Confinguration of Network-based printer unclear
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cupsys (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
gnome-cups-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I have a D-Link DP-G310 Wireless print-server attached to an Epson Stylus Photo R300
I installed Ubuntu "Edgy" I go to add a printer. It has "local" and
"networked". I chose "networked". It gave me choices of:
CUPS Printer (IPP)
Windows Printer (SMB)
Unix Printer (LPD)
HP Jet Direct
I did not have one of those proprietary HP Jet Direct thingamabobs, so I concentrated on the other three entries in the list. I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to use the other three (unsuccessfully), when I should have chosen "HP Jet Direct"
What I really needed to chose was:
"Raw network device (e.g.) HP JetDirect Card or D-Link print server"
and I would have been printing much sooner. Perhaps you could reword "HP Jet Direct"
to point people who have other network print servers.
Thanks,
maddog
This is solved by both CUPS 1.2 (with its SNMP backend which scans for network printers) and by printerdrake, the planned replacement of the gnome-cups-manager (providing a GUI frontend for the SNMP backend).
Problem of Ubuntu here is that the SNMP backend is deactivated by default (by putting it into /usr/lib/ cups/backend- available/ ). My suggestion is to make it active for Feisty. The scan takes only 3-4 sec and is very useful, especially for unexperienced users.