Jaunty: How to install a USB printer?

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:31 AM, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:

> I want to install a usb printer that's connected to my machine. I can't
> figure out how to do this in jaunty.
>
> The docs say:
>
>  http://www.kubuntu.org/docs/kquickguide/C/ch02s05.html
>
> Which is no help :-(
>
> System Setting has nothing in General, which seems weird to me, but there
> is Printer Config in Advanced.
>
> However, Printer Config only offers options for New Network Printer,
> which this isn't, or New Printer Class, which is a mystery.

This one baffled me too for awhile, until I found that the first print
listed under "Network Printers" was in fact my local printer. I don't
see why a local printer would be listed under network printers, and I
presume this is a bug. But that's where I found it, and how I got the
USB printer working on my system.

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