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I am trying to set-up a network printer on my system.

Navigated to System Setting>>Printing and viola the Add button out there is disabled.

When i troubleshooted using Help it said that the CUPS print spooler does not appear to be running. To correct this, choose System->Administration->Services from the main menu and look for 'cups' service.

Please tell me what to do in order to add a printerFollowing is the ScreenShot of what i was doing

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  • Does this help you: askubuntu.com/a/19698/3940 ? Commented Oct 17, 2012 at 8:11
  • No, The settings option is not enabled Commented Oct 17, 2012 at 8:27

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Try to open a terminal (or alt-f2 to display command execution prompt) and run

sudo system-config-printer

and check if you can add a printer from there.

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  • No, I can't. The same window opens up which is shown in the screenshot above Commented Oct 17, 2012 at 8:26
  • Why is add button not enabled :/ Commented Oct 22, 2012 at 5:36
  • maybe because the cups server isn't running, try browsing to localhost:631 Commented Oct 22, 2012 at 8:34
  • and yes you are right, it is not running, i tried to install it as well but it failed Commented Oct 22, 2012 at 8:43
  • I mean if you paste that address into your browser shows anything? Because that's the cups service port, just to check if it's running Commented Oct 23, 2012 at 9:00
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Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:631. This is the real interface to your printing system. If you want to do anything fancy, do it here. You are eliminating a lot of potential error stemming from bugs and flaws in the gnome printer dialog. Mostly the gnome dialog is just oversimplifying on some advanced functions.

If you don't see a website on localhost:631 your cups daemon (the printing system) is not running at all. Make sure it is installed.

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  • no, localhost:631 doesn't show up anything Commented Oct 30, 2012 at 4:44
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sudo apt-get install cups

#my CUPS was not installed after upgrading to 18.04, after i did this printers showed right up just had to close and reopen the printer app

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Modify the contents of /etc/environment file from 

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
http_proxy="http://111.125.139.199:8105/"
https_proxy="https://111.125.139.199:0/"
ftp_proxy="ftp://111.125.139.199:24/"
socks_proxy="socks://111.125.139.199:0/"

to 

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
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    very unusual - maybe you can explain why you had a proxy setup - surely that would affect other network related stuff by removing the proxy? Commented Oct 30, 2012 at 11:04
  • well, i was having chat conversation on stackexchange network with someone regarding an issue on my system and he asked me to do that :/ Commented Oct 30, 2012 at 11:07
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    well yeah, this obviously was the reason, since the printer setup utilities use http connections to localhost to configure the printing system, and you where redirecting all http traffic over a server in ... India... btw. are you aware of that? If not, who asked you to do this? Commented Nov 1, 2012 at 22:38
  • well i don't remeber his name :P Commented Nov 2, 2012 at 4:56

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