Super frustrating, can't add printer driver manually

[absGeekNZ]

I just tried to add my printer; Konica Minolta bizhub C250.

It keeps trying to automatically search for drivers which fails, but there is no option to manually add the drivers.

I have tried:

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apt remove ipp-usb sane-airscan

Which has made no difference, still searches for drivers and fails.

I have disabled cups-browsed, because it is a pain. The printer shows up but with no options to change anything, and a stupid Japanese postcard as the only paper size; I have A3 and A4 as actual sizes.

How do I fix this? I still have my Ubuntu 20.04 desktop which can print, so I am not completely stuffed yet.

[MikeNovember]

I just tried to add my printer; Konica Minolta bizhub C250.

It keeps trying to automatically search for drivers which fails, but there is no option to manually add the drivers.

I have tried:

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apt remove ipp-usb sane-airscan

Which has made no difference, still searches for drivers and fails.

I have disabled cups-browsed, because it is a pain. The printer shows up but with no options to change anything, and a stupid Japanese postcard as the only paper size; I have A3 and A4 as actual sizes.

How do I fix this? I still have my Ubuntu 20.04 desktop which can print, so I am not completely stuffed yet.

High,

You have a dedicated page from openprinting.org here: https://www.openprinting.org/printer/KO ... izhub_C250

You will find download links and installation instructions.

Of course, if you use drivers, you need:

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apt remove ipp-usb sane-airscan

(read https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedoc ... nters.html)

Regards,

MN

[absGeekNZ]

Thanks for the reply.

I had already read that page; I have removed usb-ipp (shouldn't be relevant as this is a network printer) and sane-airscan. The driver is also the same one that is already installed...but I grabbed a copy anyway.

There is still no way to just select from a list, as was the case in Ubuntu 20.04 and previous, which I had been using up to moving to Mint.

As I mentioned; the printer is automatically added, but I can't change any of the printer options and it only has a stupid paper size available.

I just want to have the option to select which driver to use manually like it was a few years ago when I last had to add a printer. Is there a way to do this?

[MikeNovember]

Thanks for the reply.

I had already read that page; I have removed usb-ipp (shouldn't be relevant as this is a network printer) and sane-airscan. The driver is also the same one that is already installed...but I grabbed a copy anyway.

There is still no way to just select from a list, as was the case in Ubuntu 20.04 and previous, which I had been using up to moving to Mint.

As I mentioned; the printer is automatically added, but I can't change any of the printer options and it only has a stupid paper size available.

I just want to have the option to select which driver to use manually like it was a few years ago when I last had to add a printer. Is there a way to do this?

Hi,

You can change printer options within CUPS browser.

Cups should be installed on your system; if not, install it.

Check that its web interface works: a click on [http://localhost:631/admin should open a page on your browser allowing you to manage printers:

If you receive a connection error (ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED), this means that Cups server is not configured correctly to listen on localhost.
To correct this:

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xed:////etc/cups/cupsd.conf

Paste the following line, near (before or after) the lines with "Listen", then save the edited file and quit Xed:

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Listen 127.0.0.1:631

Restart cups:

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sudo systemctl restart cups

Now, clicking on http://localhost:631/admin should open the cups printers management page.

In order to be able to use Cups web interface, your username should be member of lpdamin group. Add it (if it is already added, you will get the confirmation as the command answer):

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sudo usermod -aG lpadmin username

NB: Cups username to set up / use is your actual username, and cups password is the one you use for sudo.

Once this done, in CUPS browser you select "administration", give your password, and you can modify your printer settings.

Regards,

MN

[absGeekNZ]

Using CUPS admin; I get the message

Unable to get list of printer drivers:
Success

I found this:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... rs-success
and a linked article
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47718
Which goes into a lot of detail but is is old (2016) and should have been addressed by now.

This much newer (2021) bug report from Redhat states that the bug should have been mitigated in cups-filters 1.27.8, my system has cups-filters 1.28.15.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933848
But the bug report is exactly what is happening on my system.