Printer Driver

[samwhelp]

Printer Driver

Let me first state that I do not own a printer and have no experience in setting up printer drivers in Ubuntu.

Therefore, I didn't participate in the previous discussions about printer drivers because I couldn't test and verify whether the driver was installed successfully.

I started this discussion because I just saw @Anduin2017 replying to the following message in several discussions.

Since there are many complaints about printers,
I’m considering embedding the printer-driver-all package in the image.

However, this would increase the image size by about 100 MB.
Before making that decision, I need to confirm whether installing printer-driver-all would actually resolve most printer-related issues.

Could you please try running:

sudo apt install printer-driver-all

And see if the problem is mitigated? This helps the decision.

I mainly organize some related links, and the rest will depend on people with printers to explore, experiment and verify.

Discussion Thread

• #101 - connection HP ENVY5540
• #153 - Has anyone gotten a Brother printer to work?
• #161 - Anduin canon network printer cannot instal
• #195 - Printing
• #205 - Printer canon G3400

Ubuntu Package

Source Package
printing-metas

Package
printer-driver-all
printer-driver-all-enforce

printer-driver-all and printer-driver-all-enforce is just a MetaPackage. We can see that on the web page, there are many dependent printer driver packages listed.

Debian Package

Source Package
printing-metas

Package
printer-driver-all
printer-driver-all-enforce

• https://salsa.debian.org/printing-team/printing-metas

Link

• Ubuntu Community Help Wiki / MetaPackages
• Debian Wiki / metapackage
• Debian Wiki / SourcePackage
• Debian Wiki / BinaryPackage