How do I add a network printer in Ubuntu 12.04?

networking printing administration

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Type this in your terminal

system-config-printer

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Ricky Robinson

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Ricky Robinson almost 2 years

I know the name and the IP address of a network printer, but I can't seem to be able to search by IP address or name.

Ubuntu developers love to move things around to make it difficult for users, so now with Ubuntu 12.04 I can only go on Application -> System Tools -> System Settings -> Printers, click on Network and a list of printers appears. Too bad the one I want to add isn't there.

How do I do it?

Here it suggests System -> Administration -> Printing, which simply doesn't exist.
- olli over 11 years
  
  Please confirm that which printer you want to add whether it is on network or not?
- Ricky Robinson over 11 years
  
  It is in my network, yes. I added all my printers when I had a previous release of Ubuntu and it worked just like it's described in link above. Now I can't do anything with the way they rearranged stuff in the system settings.
- olli over 11 years
  
  try to ping the printers ip.if you are able to ping the printer than you should check your settings.
- Ricky Robinson over 11 years
  
  Yes, I am able to ping the printer. What should I do next? I remember that in the past I could search by IP address or printer name, select the driver, etc. Here I can't do anything at all...
- olli over 11 years
  
  Now run this command sudo system-config-printer and follow the steps I hop this will work for you.
- thorstorm over 11 years
  
  In Dash search for Printers, then click add printer. in the uri box enter the ip address of your printer directly. Follow the wizard with the various settings.
- Ricky Robinson over 11 years
  
  Dash is for Unity, right? I use gnome and the only thing related to printing is what I mentioned above. In any case, running system-config-printer from a shell worked! :) Thanks!
- Takkat over 11 years
  
  This may help you: askubuntu.com/questions/19694/…
Daniel Luca CleanUnicorn over 10 years

You don't really need to be root for this so you can remove "sudo"
Autumn Leonard over 7 years

@hydrarulz - Not necessarily true. Without sudo, you might get a "Privleges are required to get a list of available devices" prompt when attempting to add a device.