Installing a network laser printer in Ubuntu 9.10

In this example, we will be installing a Brother HL 4050 CDN color network laser printer in Ubuntu 9.10.

Prior to this, network has been configured, such as static IP address and domain name for the printer.

We click “System”, “Administration”, “Printing”, “New” and “Printer”. The network is now searched for available printers and the results is presented in the list below. We click our laser printer, provide it with a name and print a test page. The test page is sharp and colorful.

We open our browser, go through the page and printer settings – and print a test page. This comes out fine too.

Should you wish to go through the printer settings, the default username is “admin” and the default password is “access”.