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Running Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome-Shell, trying to setup a Zebra 2844 label printer.

CUPS Admin tool (the browser-based one) does not see it (expect it to appear as a local printer).

Standard Printer Setup tool under System Settings reports:

FirewallD is not running. Network printer detection needs services mdns, ipp, ipp-client and samba-client enabled on firewall.

The system-config-printer utility doesn't see it either.

lsusb reports the device is connected:

Bus 007 Device 007: ID 0a5f:0009 Zebra LP2844 Printer

The printer is tested and working good on a Windows box.

Any suggestions on how to complete this setup?

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Also ran lpinfo -v and got the following. Not sure why USB is not showing up here. tj@tj-Gazelle-Ultra:~$ lpinfo -v network socket file cups-pdf:/ network ipp network smb network lpd network http network beh direct hpfax direct hp – user34736 Dec 16 '11 at 22:39
Older CUPS wouldn't see USB printers unless they were plugged in an powered on when CUPS started. Have you tried starting / stopping CUPS? – charlesbridge Dec 19 '11 at 19:12
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I had the same problem with my hp printer but solved by some tip in below link http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=157&t=88389&p=516978 Note that gnome shell printer tools work on rpm base distribution so you have to use system-config-printer but in my case installing driver was the first with this command :

dpkg-reconfigure hplib

after running that it added automatically.

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