Installing Printers in Linux | CUPS, Printing, and Scanning

In this video, I am going over installing printers in Linux. I'm going over CUPS (Common Unix Printer Service) and Scanning with Multi-function printers.

CUPS Install and Setup
sudo apt install cups
sudo systemctl enable cups
sudo systemctl start cups

CUPS Setup - localhost:631
Setup user with modification to use printers
sudo usermod -aG lpadmin username

[ChrisTitusTech]

Also, If you get permission issues in CUPS interface be sure and do the following in terminal:
Setup user with modification to use printers - $ sudo usermod -aG lpadmin username

[justins]

after attempting to connect to my neighbor's printer on accident for 2 hours, i finally figured out which one was mine :)

[mitchelvalentino]

Very useful episode. Printers aren’t as sexy as gaming and desktop ricing, but printers are something we must deal with. Besides, every hacker needs a good printer story! Thanks as always for the great content, Chris! Cheers!

[QuickBits]

Great detailed video on CUPS & Printing on Linux. Thanks for the information Chris.

[IanSRutter]

If you are doing this in Arch, the cups service name has been changed. Type this.
$ sudo systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service
$ sudo systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service


Good video.


Edited.
If you are not sure if Cups is installed, do this first.
$ systemctl start cups (If your terminal displays Unit cups.service not found, then you need to create with the following content.)


[Unit]
Description=CUPS Printing Service Sockets


[Socket]



[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target


(Then do the above commands)
Have fun!!

[Aronymous]

For scanning, I can personally recommend simple-scan. I was expecting the worst, and spending hours of trying to make scanning work for my Canon MP260, but it literally just worked perfectly out of the box.

[suribachi]

Thanks to your videos in the past week, I will be making the full jump to Linux when I build a Ryzen based system later this year. I admit, I was/am one of those people that was hanging onto Windows just for gaming. However, I have been checking out Valve's Proton and WINE. The titles where I spend 90% of my time are rated Gold or higher. Probably going to go with POP! OS. Thanks again and keep up the good work!

[rfrnet]

Thanks, Chris, for posting this vid. Much more insiteful than the "1-2-3 and you're done" vids.

[eViLaRRi]

Thank you Chris, you saved my life, I was lost trying to get my printer working.

[bobpeters]

Thank you. That "Windows & Mac" process of downloading the driver from Canon had always worked with Debian for my Canon printer, but Arch had me pulling my hair out and ready to just move anything needing printing to my Debian laptop. You just got me close enough to find my way there.

[everyinspirationin]

I love you man! I spent 15 hours trying to set up my printer doing research on my own. This made things much easier

[slitairek]

CUPS + Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless = make (virtually) ANY USB Printer in to a discrete networked printer.

[millziz]

I have experience of 3 basic HP printers (different models) on Linux with Debian and for printing its just a case of:
sudo apt install hplip system-config-printer
Then use the print settings gui to set it up (if it's on the network its usually done automatically). system -config-printer being a gnome package I believe so probably fits in better with gtk based desktops. Surprisingly I tried the same packages with an epson printer and that also worked. I'm only talking about printing functionality though on these printers, never tried to set them up for scanning. On point content as always :)

[josjuarlister]

Thank you!! YOU BEAUTIFUL HUMAN!!!!
I've had such a nightmare connecting a printer on my Linux system!! after executing the commands in the description it worked perfectly!

[yourustyhoyt]

I appreciate the reality check. Printing/scanning is one of the areas that make me hesitant to switch from Windows to Linux. So, I'm still hesitating. Thanks.

[theodoros_]

Your cat in the background was a great bonus to the video.

[sergekhakhin]

systemctl enable --now {service} is equivalent to separate enable/start commands. And thanks for the video, Chris :)

[mattthericker]

Thank you so much. This video saved what is left of my sanity.

[washingtonradio]

Great video, liked the disclaimer. I personally prefer separate devices not 3-in-1s. That said on Manjaro, I found the Brother (printer) drivers in the AUR and Epson (scanner) software split between the regular repositories and the AUR. Both work fine with minimal fuss.

[paultrainer]

Good afternoon! I am absolutely thrilled! Thanks for the lesson with the information. I have used this to get an Epson printer running on Lubuntu 20.0x. So the video has been brilliant. Definitely a go to for a Normy to start learning printing problem troubleshooting and resolving. Thank you Mr Titus. Much appreciated.