Questions regarding printing and how to set up printers.
Accessing printers, how to print, and setting the defaults of printers.
Questions tagged [printing]
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How do I clear a Print-queue in Ubuntu?
I am an absolute beginner with Ubuntu and I appear to have a long queue of documents in my H.P. 840C printer.
Norman Woodcock
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Printer in "pending" mode only, not printing
OS: Ubuntu 13
Printer: HP Deskjet 2540
Problem: Printer worked initially. Suddenly stopped working. Printer cue just says "pending" and printing never happens.
How do I get it to go from "pending" to "printing"?
Donnie Love
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Print from command line
How can I print the command line output directly to the printer.
I am using ubuntu server 12.04 and I have to copy files into a shared directory and then download them from a desktop ubuntu distribution to print them.
Any help is appreciated
kamil
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How can I set 'Print to File' as my default printing option?
At the moment when I print, my Deskjet-3050 is selected as the default printer.
I would like 'Print to File' to be the default 'printer' without using cups-pdf
I specifically do not want to use cups-pdf because of the way it renders text (see…
edm
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Where can I find the default printing test page?
where can i find the default test page in ubuntu ?
Lincity
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How do I modify a printer's IP address in CUPS?
I have a network printer with a static IP address. Recently I've changed my subnet and had to allocate it a new static IP address.
I've tried to update CUPS with the new IP address by going to Printers -> [Printer name] -> Administration -> Modify…
Jon Bentley
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Printers Always Print Pages In Reverse Order
I have used Ubuntu for many years and this has always been a problem for me on every printer I encounter (HP, Lexmark, and Samsung, among others). Whenever I print, the fidelity is fine but instead of printing so that the first page ends up on top…
ChrisTomalty
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How do I install my printer with Ubuntu?
How do I install my printer with Ubuntu? The printer disk is only supported by windows.
Ron Krestan
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HP LaserJet printer doesn't have 2 sided option
When I want to print something, I don't get the option to print on both sides of a paper although my printer supports this feature. How can I fix this? Do I have to download a proprietary driver?
My printer is a HP LaserJet p2015n.
Olivier Lalonde
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How to send to print (many) selected files in a directory instead of one by one?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and succesfully installed my wi-fi printer, but my question is: How to print many files at a time? I mean, I have many PDF or text files in a folder and I want to send them directly to printer instead of opening one by one in…
Oscar
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What is the CUPS administration URL?
I thought a Google search would instantly provide me the answer. I am very surprised it didn't!
I had it stored in my browser... I just typed "CUPS" and it brought the page to me... but I've cleared the history... now I want to get there again.
J. Bruni
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Alternative printer driver for Fuji Xerox DocuPrint P205b?
Is there a driver for a similar printer that also happens to work for the Fuji Xerox P205 b?
I have tried the generic PCL 5 driver and the generic PostScript driver but they do not work. Any other suggestions? I'm on 10.10 (Maverick).
Update The…
H2ONaCl
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How do I add printers from a windows print server
I am installing Ubuntu 12.10 in a Windows environment. Currently, all of our printers are served. For instance, our main printer is on \SST-DC5\COPIER. I am trying to figure out how to add these printers to Ubuntu. I don't want to create a print…
Mike
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Can't install printer, cups problem?
I'm new to Ubuntu, using Ubuntu 16.04.
In System Settings > Hardware > Printers it says
Printing service not available. Start the service on this computer or connect to another server.
The start service button is locked. When I press connect it…
Ohad Habusha
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How to print only even or odd pages (HP LaserJet 1018)
Sometimes I print two sided documents. Therefore I first print odd pages then I use the same papers in reverse order to print even pages(I just check reverse while printing).
I do this operation manually, it means that I enter page numbers my self,…
mehdix
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