UbuntuPrinting
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 new versions of Ubuntu may work we have not tested them.
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.
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 the list of available queues is at https://print.umiacs.umd.edu/printers.
- You can then Verify the host and queue are correct and then click Forward in the bottom right.
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.
Finished
- You should be able now to print using any of the normal print dialog boxes in Ubuntu or with standard CUPS commands.