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Installing HP printer in Ubuntu 11.04 server

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youthgonewild23
youthgonewild23 Posts: 2
in Printers & Scanners

I have a HP Officejet J3680 Printer with a USB connection. How do I install it on Ubuntu server? Thank you.

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  • mfillpot
    mfillpot Posts: 2,177
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    Install the hplip packages from the software center then it should be very easy to configure.
  • youthgonewild23
    youthgonewild23 Posts: 2
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    Does that work on server also? Keep in mind it uses a command line interface. Thanks.
  • mfillpot
    mfillpot Posts: 2,177
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    The server version of the OS should not be different. Even if you are using a command line interface hplip will install the necessary drivers that you can setup in cups.
  • odlevakp
    odlevakp Posts: 29
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    Printers can be easily configured using CUPS. Ubuntu server should have all required packages installed, to check if they are run:
    # dpkg -l cups

# service cups status
Status of Common Unix Printing System: cupsd is running.

    If CUPS is not running start it, then you can access it on http://localhost:631 . This works also on your desktop
    installation, but since, I suppose, you don't have a running X server on your Ubuntu server you'll have to make it listen
    on all interfaces instead of localhost and add Allow from all or only your IP address accordingly.
    # vim /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

Listen 0.0.0.0:631

[ ... ]

<Location />
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Location>

<Location /admin>
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Location>

[ ... ]


# service cups restart

    After that if you go to https://SERVER_IP:631 you can add your printer. After you are done adding your printer set CUPS back to listen on localhost only.

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