Printing: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 14:28, 15 February 2012

To set up printing to the MathSoc printer, do the following steps:

Go to the Brother site and grab the cupswrapper and lpr drivers.
Install cups.
Install the drivers with dpkg. You may need to use --force architecture on a 64-bit machine; don't worry, the package is actually arch-independent.
Go to http://localhost:631/. Go to 'Add Printer'.
Once it finishes, looking for printers, ignore the ones listed (they forward through MathSoc) and click 'Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)'.
Enter ipp://lp-mc3038.mathsoc.uwaterloo.ca/ipp as your connection.
Set the default name options (a name of "MathSoc" is what I used; with a description describing the costs.
Select the Brother make, and either of the MFC 9770CDW drivers
For default options, make sure that Color is set to Mono and Two-sided printing is set to Long-edge.

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 # Install <tt>cups</tt>.
 # Install the drivers with <tt>dpkg</tt>. You may need to use <tt>--force architecture</tt> on a 64-bit machine; don't worry, the package is actually arch-independent.
-# Go to <tt>http://localhost:631/<tt>. Go to 'Add Printer'.
+# Go to <tt>http://localhost:631/</tt>. Go to 'Add Printer'.
 # Once it finishes, looking for printers, ignore the ones listed (they forward through MathSoc) and click 'Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)'.
 # Enter <tt>ipp://lp-mc3038.mathsoc.uwaterloo.ca/ipp</tt> as your connection.