The first order of business is to add ourselves to the usergroup that has access to the printers/printer queue. Once the base installation is complete, we need to make a few small administrative changes. CUPS is a fairly beefy install, so feel free to go grab a cup of coffee. When prompted to continue, type Y and press enter. It’s time to fire up your Pi and navigate to the terminal (either on the Pi itself of via SSH).Īt the terminal, enter the following command to begin installing CUPS:
#Gutenprint raspberry pi install#
In order to link a printer with the Raspberry Pi, we first need to install Common Unix Printing System (CUPS). Installing CUPS on the Pi and Enabling Remote Access If you haven’t yet configured your Raspberry Pi with a Rasbian image, we highly suggest starting with our introduction to the Raspberry Pi. 1 USB-based or network-accessible printer.1 Raspberry Pi unit with Rasbian installed.RELATED: Everything You Need to Know About Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi What Do I Need?įor this tutorial you’ll need the following things:
If you’re experimenting with the Pi as a desktop replacement, want to enable a physical print output for a program or application suite you’re using, or otherwise want to enable traditional printing on your Pi, this tutorial is a straight shot from printerless to happy printing there’s no previous printer-wrangling under Linux experience required.
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