Add a cups printer to windows 7

Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Steve Diesel. Hi, Follow these steps and check if it works: 1. Refer this links to know more about adding a printer. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In the features list, scroll down to Print and Document Services and verify that the Internet Printing Client checkbox is checked.

Select the Select a shared printer by name option and type in the address of your printer which you can find in CUPS, in the Printers tab. You can use either the hostname of your PI if it is properly configured or use the IP address to be safer. The address of your printer should be similar to the one in the image:. If it succeeds, it will ask you for the driver. Select it from the available list or provide a driver disk. Once done, the printer will show up in the Devices and Printer list.

It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I have Ubuntu The Ubuntu computer has a printer attached, and I want to add this printer to the Windows 7 computer.

Printing locally works. The problem is that Windows is not able to see the shared printer, so I cannot add it. How can I make Windows add this printer? I'm not sure whether the checkbox Allow printing from the Internet needs to be checked also; I've tried both settings, and neither worked.

The Ubuntu computer is a fresh install. I already have full write access on Windows shares, so something of this kind must be preconfigured out-of-the-box. I have not installed or changed any applications or settings regarding Samba or smb. Do I need to do anything in this regard on Ubuntu Googling for this problem gives me plenty of material dated but nothing newer. I don't think that's still valid in and I don't want to mess up my new installation with outdated instructions.

Via one of the comments I came to this page about network printing from Windows but it does not specify whether Samba is already installed -- or which Samba to install, because searching in the Ubuntu Software Center yields several results. Well, I finally got it working. It turns out there are several parts that need to work together of course. But here's a way that requires zero work in terminal :.

Windows drivers must be uploaded through Windows Explorer unlike Linux drivers which are installed on Linux filesystems. Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.