Diagram of installing and installing hp Network Printer in Ubuntu

Installing a printer on Ubuntu is not as troublesome as you think. You can call up printer settings from the "System-" System Management-"print" menu. First, you can install a pdf virtual printer to generate a pdf file of the printed content and save the generated pdf file in the pdf folder under the user folder. Select the "new printer" button and select "printmediapdffile" in the connection type.

Installing a printer on Ubuntu is not as troublesome as you think. You can call up printer settings from the "System-" System Management-"print" menu.

First, you can install a pdf virtual printer to generate a pdf file of the printed content and save the generated pdf file in the pdf folder under the user folder. Select the "new printer" button and select "print into PDF file" in the connection type. Then, a dialog box for selecting the printer vendor driver appears. Then, select "Generic ", next, select "PDF file generator ". Next, a printer name is displayed. Click Apply to add a new printer.

Add a normal dot matrix printer. Generally, on the lpt interface, select "lpt #1" for the connection type ". Select the vendor and printer type for your printer. If you do not have your own printer model, you can choose a universal 24-pin Printer Driver from the same manufacturer. Of course, if you are a 9-pin printer, you need to choose a 9-pin printer driver. Generally, the resolution of the default dot matrix printer is very low. In this way, you can adjust the resolution items in the "Printer Options". Generally, 180dpi is good.

Share a printer on Windows. If you want to use a shared printer installed on a Windows computer. First of all, make sure that you have shared Windows and your Ubuntu can access Windows sharing normally. Select "Windows Printer via SAMBA" in the connection type, and enter the name and Printer name of the Windows computer in the address bar. Such as Windowspc/epson. You can also use the "browse" button to browse the printers shared by the samba protocol, but sometimes it is not very good. Others are the same as above. Note that the printer name is case sensitive in Ubuntu.