Matti Pulkkinen writes:
Hello!It seems like the term "network printer" often refers to printers which are connected to a computer, which then shares that printer out to the network. There are tomes and tomes of arcane configuration manuals for getting this sort of printing to work. However, there are also printers with ethernet ports, and I would like to know if anyone has experience getting one of these kinds of printers to work on Linux. Do you just plug the printer in to your network, turn it on, and see it appear in print dialogs on your computer, or is the process more involved than that?
For my HP printer, that was pretty much it. hplip detected it, and set it up, and that was that.
This varies printer by printer, I suppose. But for HP printers, these days, it's fairly straightforward. The only thing you have to do is some due diligence, and verify that the particular HP model is supported by hplip.
The only other thing I had to do is grab the printer's MAC address, and have my DHCP server give it a static assignment, and add a DNS entry for it. This way I can load the printer's admin panel in my browser.
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