UbuntuPrinting

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Printing from your personal Ubuntu laptop or desktop is supported. If you are sitting at a supported UMIACS Ubuntu LTS desktop then please see our common UNIX/Linux printing documentation for CUPS. This documentation assumes the current Ubuntu LTS 10.04.xx release and while older or newer versions of Ubuntu may work, we have not tested them.

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Please note that printing requires you to be on a UMIACS network so if you have a laptop and use wireless you will need to log into the UMIACS VPN which is covered in the UbuntuVPN article.

Printing

• First navigate from the System Menu to Administration and finally to Printing.

Local Queue

• Next you will want to click the Add button to create a local queue for the printer that you wish to print to.

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Network Printer

• Now you will be given a selection box that has a list of Devices, please expand the Network Printer option and select Internet Printing Protocol.
• Enter print.umiacs.umd.edu for the Host
• Enter /printers/cps3142 for cps3142 in Queue field for this example. If you need to find a different printer check the list of available queues at https://print.umiacs.umd.edu/printers.
• You can now Verify the host and queue are correct and then click Forward in the bottom right.

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Queue Details

• You will want to give the local queue you are creating a descriptive name which usually is just the queue name (cps3142 in this example).
• Finally Apply your settings.

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Finished

• You should now be able to print using any of the normal print dialog boxes in Ubuntu or with standard CUPS commands.