OK, got it working... not sure if this is actually a bug or due to 3rd party vendor's driver...
I have a Samsung ML-2010 Laser printer, and Samsung does provide a driver for their printer. Here's what I did to get this working: 1) via CUPs web admin, I deleted the defined printer. 2) I re-installed the Samsung driver. The driver install will automatically define a printer, but when checking the install, the DEVICE URI was "/dev/null". 3) I noticed that in /usr/lib/cups/backend that there was no file called "socket", however, there was a file in /usr/lib/cups/backend-available called "socket" so I copied it from backend-available over to backend. 4) Using the the CUPs WEB interface, I added a new printer, and was this time able to choose "Apple socket/HP JetDirect" as the interface, and then set "socket://192.168.1.99:9100" as my networked printer. The printer now works correctly. -- "Backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket does not exist!" https://launchpad.net/bugs/97672 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
