Question - printing

[ygowayed]

How can I install a network printer in raring with xfce desktop in crouton on acer-c7?

[musical-chairs]

I'm using lxde (raring) on a Samsung series 3, but the process should be the same.

1. Install the needed packages: cups, system-config-printer-gnome, and hplip (if it's an HP printer).
2. init scripts don't work right in crouton so we need to start cups somehow. One way is to edit /etc/rc.local and add:
   /usr/sbin/cupsd
3. Add your username to the lpadmin group:
   sudo adduser username lpadmin
4. Finally, log out and back in for these settings to take effect.
   You should now be able to go into Preferences / Printers and set up your network printer. I had to point it at the ip address of the printer host (I haven't gotten smb browsing to work yet but that's another issue), but from there everything just worked.

[dnschneid]

Thanks for that, @trulanm. You may want to add to the wiki.

[pradacr]

Is it possible to install a local USB printer?

[dnschneid]

If it doesn't require a kernel driver, sure.

[pradacr]

How do I know?
What are other users doing?
Is this the same for Ubuntu Unity?
Thanks a lot

[dnschneid]

Not sure; I haven't tried it, and the wiki only refers to network printers...

[pradacr]

I rarely print but I can't do without printing sometimes, I don't have the expertise to solve this problem, I think I'll have to go back to Chrubuntu :0( thanks a lot anyway

[dnschneid]

Sorry about that. Some of these things require a trailblazer to step up. I take it the wiki's instructions didn't work for USB?

[pradacr]

These are the screenshots of what I get after following the instructions abobe except for the hp driver, but I only get network printers:

[dnschneid]

Could you post the output of croutonversion and what kind of printer you're using?

[pradacr]

Its a scanner/printer Epson Stylus TX130, on Linux Mint I open "Printers", plug it and in a minute its working. For the scanner I go to avasys.jp to download the iscan stuff and works very well.

(precise)julio@localhost:$ croutonversion
crouton: version 0-20131001173116master:d511b339
release: precise
architecture: i386
host: version 4319.96.0 (Official Build) stable-channel parrot

[dnschneid]

Does /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb exist inside the chroot?

[pradacr]

Yes, it says it is a shared library 30kb file

[dnschneid]

Then it's possible your printer isn't supported in the cups in precise; have you tried a newer release such as raring? You can install it alongside your current chroot as a trial.

[barbarianeggplant]

Similar issue, different printer
I'm trying to connect an acer c7 to an HP Officejet 6800. I don't think it's a release issue, as my other laptop, which is running precise as its primary os, has no trouble connecting to it.
When I enter the device URI to add it, it seems to recognize the printer immediately, but any job I send is held and unable to be released and if I run hp-probe, it doesn't turn up any printers connected.

Here's the output of croutonversion, if it's useful:
crouton: version 0-20131014202043~master:b3d31b47
release: precise
architecture: i386
host: version 4319.96.0 (Official Build) stable-channel parrot

[pradacr]

I made a guest account for a friend and when she gave my Chromebook it back to me it was reset with no crouton, not even the boot "scary screen", I'll try to re-install crouton next week and continue trying to install a printer.

[aryanvahedi]

1. init scripts don't work right in crouton so we need to start cups somehow. One way is to edit /etc/rc.local and add:
   /usr/sbin/cupsd

Can someone please explain to me how to perform this step? Where do I add this line?

It seems I do not have permissions to edit this file either.

[pradacr]

Hi Aryanvahedi, I gess you have to use the sudo command to get the permission.

Find out which text editor you have (pluma, gedit, etc) and use it in the following command:

sudo pluma /etc/rc.local

The contents of rc.local may be like:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

exit 0

Copy the following line before "exit 0" and save it

/usr/sbin/cupsd

Hope it helps

[pradacr]

Does anyone know how to avoid formatting? When I copy the rc.local text it adds a line after each # sign and make the font big.
:0(
Its hard to try help if you're not an expert...

[dnschneid]

ftfy :)

[pradacr]

Thanks David!