[Novices] setting up printer in Ubuntu

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 13:28 -0800, Brock Inglehart wrote:
> I'm doing something wrong.

:)

> I'm trying Ubuntu 5.1 from the run CD and am trying to get my printer
> set up.  

I've never successfully got Ubuntu up and going so I'm pulling all this
out of some random orifice.  For whatever reason when I try to install
Ubuntu in VMware it sends it into a stating of raving lunacy.

> I  have gone to:
> System / Administration / printing then double click on the "new
> printer" icon.  I get the "step 1 of 2 printer connection" window.
> The "local printer" is checked as well as the "use another printer by
> specifying a port"  and I can't uncheck this.

Is it possible to send a screenshot?

> The next screen lets me pick the brand and model of printer and below
> this is a specified driver for the printer selected.  When I select my
> printer I assume that I am supposed to install the driver.  

Mmm, I don't think so.  The drivers should already be installed.

> I get a "Select a PPD file window and nothing happens in here no
> matter what I do.  

I doubt you actually want this.  The only time I've ever had to use a
PPD file from the manufacturer was for corporate document centers (they
staple, they sort, they collate, the whir, they beep, and boy howdy do
they get catastrophic paper jams).

> When I cancel this screen and go back to the "step 2" screen.  I hit
> Apply and the print setup window closes and I go back to the origional
> print screen with a new icon for the printer in place and saying that
> the printer is ready.  Except,,,! ,,, it won't print.   

If you go to http://localhost:631/ in a web browser what do you see?  Do
you see a page where you can click "Printers"?

> From either Oo2 or a web page.  

But the printer DOES appear in OOo?