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Adding printers to zorin 15

Siliconstan

Wed Jun 19, 2019 3:59:33 am

This may seem an elementary question but I must be missing something. I Have used Zorin 9 for several years and very impressed with ease of adding printers.
I swapped my Zorin 9 hard drive with a new installation SSD with Zorin 15.
I have not been able to find the area where printers are added. I seem to hit dead ends with settings and system tools.
Would appreciate knowingt where my blind spot is.
Stan

Swarfendor437

Wed Jun 19, 2019 11:59:35 am

Hi, Open Settings, then Devices - Printers should be in there. ;) :D

When you select it you should get the familiar interface to that of 12.

Aravisian

Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:08:00 pm

Siliconstan wrote:This may seem an elementary question but I must be missing something. I Have used Zorin 9 for several years and very impressed with ease of adding printers.
I swapped my Zorin 9 hard drive with a new installation SSD with Zorin 15.
I have not been able to find the area where printers are added. I seem to hit dead ends with settings and system tools.
Would appreciate knowingt where my blind spot is.
Stan

Stan, my main machine is Zorin 12.4 Core which is what I started on. Recently, I got another machine and I installed 12.4 Lite on it.
And... I cannot find anything on Lite.
You are not alone.

Swarfendor437

Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:26:26 pm

Here is the route to Add a printer in Zorin 15:

1.
Settings_Devices.jpg


2.
Printers.jpg


3.
Add Printer.jpg


Alternate method is to open a terminal and enter:

system-config-printer.jpg

Swarfendor437

Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:52:51 pm

Aravisian wrote:
Siliconstan wrote:This may seem an elementary question but I must be missing something. I Have used Zorin 9 for several years and very impressed with ease of adding printers.
I swapped my Zorin 9 hard drive with a new installation SSD with Zorin 15.
I have not been able to find the area where printers are added. I seem to hit dead ends with settings and system tools.
Would appreciate knowingt where my blind spot is.
Stan

Stan, my main machine is Zorin 12.4 Core which is what I started on. Recently, I got another machine and I installed 12.4 Lite on it.
And... I cannot find anything on Lite.
You are not alone.


In 12 Lite - Menu | Settings | Hardware section of Settings Panel:

1.
Settings-Printers-Lite.jpg


2.
Add-Printer-Lite.jpg


system-config-printer command in terminal also works in Lite:

system-config-printer-Lite.jpg

Swarfendor437

Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:55:49 pm

TIP: If having issues connecting to a Printer attached to a router for sharing or on network, using:

Code:
system-config-printer


from the terminal, will often yield better results! ;) :D

Siliconstan

Wed Jun 19, 2019 10:36:15 pm

Thanks for help.
At first I still didnt solve it.
When I went into system tools and then into settings, there was a screen with the Zorin logo and a description of the computer-eg disc size RAM size CPU speed etc. but no "devices"
Final I noticed an arrow upper left corner of the screen labelled "details". Clicking that revealed a miracle! And in that miracle list was "devices" and devices led to printers.
Perhaps other installs of Zorin are set to display that way.
Zorin definitely a good playing partner for hide and go seek. You can return to the minimalistic screen clicking final entry on list "details"

Stan Aspire 1830 T 250 Gb SSD, 4 GB RAM DDR3 (zorin only records 1.3 Gb) CPU intel 1.3 ghz x 2

Swarfendor437

Thu Jun 20, 2019 12:56:45 am

Siliconstan wrote:Thanks for help.
At first I still didnt solve it.
When I went into system tools and then into settings, there was a screen with the Zorin logo and a description of the computer-eg disc size RAM size CPU speed etc. but no "devices"
Final I noticed an arrow upper left corner of the screen labelled "details". Clicking that revealed a miracle! And in that miracle list was "devices" and devices led to printers.
Perhaps other installs of Zorin are set to display that way.
Zorin definitely a good playing partner for hide and go seek. You can return to the minimalistic screen clicking final entry on list "details"

Stan Aspire 1830 T 250 Gb SSD, 4 GB RAM DDR3 (zorin only records 1.3 Gb) CPU intel 1.3 ghz x 2


If you don't see any screens similar to mine then suspect corrupt iso/install.