Adding a printer within Ubuntu
One of our office printers decided to die the other day, a Brother multi-function laser printer, which I recall took quite a lot of messing around to get it printing from Ubuntu and once it was set-up it always took a while to send pages to the printer. Sometimes, it printed just a bunch of garbage instead of the document I sent too.
Our new printer, an HP 2727nf MFP, was a completely different experience. After hooking it up to the network and selecting to add a new printer within Ubuntu, it searched for printers, found the new HP, fetched and installed the required drivers and just worked! Pages are sent to the printer almost immediatly and have printed perfectly every time, so far.
Also, I set the same printer up on 6 machines in the office, 1 x Ubuntu, 2 x Xubuntu, 1 x OS X, 1 x Vista, 1 x XP Pro. By the time it was set-up on the first Windows machine I had already completed the set-up on all three Linux machines – Two thumbs up for Ubuntu and HP.
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