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Print to a network printer

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I have a Brother HL-2170-W laser printer which is wirelessly connected to my 2wire gateway from Qwest. My windows systems can print to it. I cannot print to it with my Ubuntu 7.10 machine, unless I physically connect the printer to the machine, which takes it off the wireless network. My Ubuntu machine is connected to the Gateway via Ethernet cable and thereby to the internet, but can't print to the printer.

I would like to either 1] print to the printer through the wireless gateway, or 2] connect to the home network through the gateway. Complicating the problem is that at present, our two windows laptops are down, so the only nodes on this gateway are the printer, an xbox, and this dual-boot machine (running Ubuntu or XP pro).

The gateway is at 192.168.0.1 . The printer is at 192.168.0.70 . The Ubuntu machine is at 192.168.0.64 .

I've tried setting the device URI to ipp://192.168.0.70, but that doesn't work. I'm unable to ping the printer. I've tried to set it up using smb://____________ something or other, but I can't figure out what the workgroup and server and stuff should be. I downloaded Samba, but it's over my head.

Any help is appreciated. :)

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PirxPilot (hawkinsrn) said : 		#1

umm . . . yeah. Well thanks anyway.

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Douglas Moyes (aragorn-stellimare) said : 		#2

I'm afraid your printer is using a non-standard protocol for networking. This is pretty common on low-end network printers.

The ideal solution would be a printer from HP or Lexmark that supports PostScript. I personally favor HP. HP printers have native lpd support, so you can use them with Windows, Linux, Mac, or any system pretty easily. PostScript is also a well known standard, and just about any computer that prints knows about PostScript. That means no additional drivers are required to get your printer up and running. Though, with Windows, you'll want to install them anyway...

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william zuk (williamzuk07) said : 		#3

i have a newly purchased dlink n router and a used hp 1600 printer (which i have had hooked directly to my ubuntu based pc) plugged into usb connection on router, i can connect to router with ubuntu 10.04 but am unable to figure out how to get everythig to come together, i am trying to print a receipt from the details of transaction from paypal which i downloaded to documents and even when i open it with abrowser it shows up as jumbled up mess of htmls or something, i have been using ubuntu online for several mo.'s but can't seem to figure this one out

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