It has been a long time since I posted something.
One big reason I had to stick with Windows at work was printing stuff. I got a brand new mini PC with 16GB with Windows 11.
I decided to dual boot with Arch Linux (ArchLabs) because I had to install it quickly. I am using i3 with it.
To install your wireless printer:
For quickness I installed YAY as my installer
- In terminal: yay cups or just sudo pacman -S cups
- add yourself to the lp group; a. sudo su b. usermod -aG lp {username} c. exit
- sudo systemctl enable cups.service
- sudo systemctl start cups.service
- reboot
- download the driver by searching through the AUR repo.
- Go to browser and type in "localhost:631" without the quotes
- Find printer
- Add the printer
- change the connection to ipp://ip.addr.of.printer/ipp or
lpd://ip.addr.of.printer/queue/ <~ this one seems to be working better.
That's it.
It took me a long time to get this figured out.
If you don't know how to get the address of your printer, I would suggest go to the printer and print a report of the printer, the newer printers typically has the network information. If that doesn't work, go to your modem/router admin page to find it that way.
I also post this for my future self.
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