Peter via luv-beginners wrote:
I have tried the wireless setup on the printer menu and connected to my home router successfully.Not
sure if that is required.However, the printer now says it's IP address is 192.168.0.11.Not sure if that is the IP address that is relevant.
If it is a modern networked printer (i.e. ethernet/wifi, not usb/parallel), it will support "IPP Everywhere". That basically means there's print server software built into the physical printer. That means the print server on your laptop/desktop should auto-discover it using zeroconf/bonjour/avahi (as long as that's enabled, and it *is* enabled by default). So it SHOULD HAVE just appeared as a print queue, without needing to do any setup at all. Since that *didn't* happen, you will probably need to do something like: * find the printer's IP address (or hostname) * confirm that address/name responds to ping (i.e. "ping 192.168.0.11") * confirm that address/name responds to IPP (i.e. "nmap 192.168.0.11") * tell cups on your laptop/desktop to add a print queue for that address/name. For that last step, you would either use the GUI tool you already mentioned, or the cups admin web UI (browse to https://localhost:631/), or the CLI tool lpadmin(8). I only really know about the CLI, where creating the queue looks like this: sudo lpadmin -p myQueueName -E -v ipp://192.168.0.11/internalQueueName -m lsb/usr/cupsfilters/pxlmono.ppd -D "HP LaserJet 1536 dnf MFP" -L "Living room, next to the box of sex toys" -o PageSize=A4 sudo lpadmin -d myQueueName # make it the default printer On any printer small enough to pick up, "internalQueueName" can be any string, it doesn't matter. If your printer is really old and horrible, it will only speak LPD instead of IPP. nmap should tell you if that's the case. The hardest part of all this is knowing what PPD to use. PPD is basically a postscript program that says stuff like "this printer can do color, and it can print pages of A4 or Letter, and it can print up to 5mm from the edges, and it understands input documents formatted as PDF or PCL." If it's a really horrible evil printer, it'll instead say This printer doesn't understand standard input formats AT ALL, instead you must send input through a crappy closed-source program in /opt/blargh-1.2/bin/blarh The PPD and the (optional) crappy program are together what people call the "printer driver". When you use the web interface, it will usually let you pick a make & model of printer, and then auto-select a built-in "printer driver" that is appropriate for that model.