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Hello my name is Andrew Gee and welcome to this Ubuntu screencast.

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In this screencast I am going to tell you how to work out
whether your printer is supported in Linux

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and how to set up your printer in Ubuntu.

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Go ahead and log in to your Ubuntu desktop,

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entering your username and password as usual.

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This is a basic 7.04 (also known as Feisty Fawn) installation

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and the first thing we are going to do is
go over to the open printing website.

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So load up firefox and in the address bar
type http://openprinting.org

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The website will load.

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Click the printers link to head over to the printer database.

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Here you will see two drop down boxes.

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In the first one select the make of your printer,

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in the second select the model,

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mine is an HP Deskjet 6127.

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Press the show button,

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that will send you over to the printer's page.

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Here you can see two pieces of information,

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my printer works perfectly under Linux and

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that I should use the hpijs driver.

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Now that I know this, I can go and see what
it would look like

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if my printer was not supported in Linux.

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Here you can see

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that's would it would look like if it looks perfectly,

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where everything works.

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Mostly, is where most things work, apart from advanced modes.

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Partially, is where it wouldn't work that well

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and you probably get bad printouts.

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And the last one is paperweight where it doesn't work at all.

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Now that we know that, we can go and install the printer

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so go to System, Administration, Printing,

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that will load this dialogue.

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Double-click on New Printer, that will load the dialogue.

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Here you can see that my printer has been detected.

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If your printer has not been detected,
you can click this option button here,

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and choose where your printer is connected.

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If you have a network printer that was not detected,

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click the network printer option box,

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choose what type of printer you have

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and then change the connection options underneath.

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As my printer has been detected, I will continue with that.

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The next page shows you what driver you should be using.

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In the first box you select the manufacturer,

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then you choose the model

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and it picks the driver for you,

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hpijs, which is what the website recommended.

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I can also select a different one if I want or

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I can install a driver if I have the correct .PPD file.

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Now that is done, I can press forward

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In this box I can name my printer,

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you can not put spaces, as that would be invalid.

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You can also put a description and location

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although this isn't needed.

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Click apply and your printer will be added

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and you can see it there.

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Now we need to test the printer, so right click on it

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go to properties

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and that will load a dialogue that looks like this.

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Then click print test page button,

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that will send a test page off to the printer.

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That should come out of the printer

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Now press Close.

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Now I'm going to show you how to print from an application,

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so I'm going to load up Open Office

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and open up a sample document.

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Here is my sample document,

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I can print it by going to File, Print,

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making sure my printer is selected

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and I can change any other options,

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then press Ok.

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That is then sent off to the printer and it will print out.

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Thanks for watching this screencast,

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