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It used to be installing a printer in Linux was somewhat a pain. I remember installing my first printer, a Canon inkjet. It would work in one version of Linux, and then when upgrading to the next version, the printer would stop working because of something had changed. And this was a local printer. It was very annoying (especially when you are a student ands needs to print your homework. Well, not really, since we just ended up going to the computer lab before class).

That said, ever since I got introduced to CUPS, printing has become much more enjoyable (well, the fact that I usually go for HP printers probably helps too). I usually connect the printer through the USB port to a local server, and use CUPS to set up a printserver for the local network.

LaserJet M1522n is one of HP’s multifunction printer. It is also network based, and I was curious whether it would cause problems installing on Linux. Surprisingly (or maybe not at this point), installing the printer part was pretty painless. Printer got discovered by CUPS. Just answer some questions, and away I went, having a network printer. I had some problems with the scanning part (xsane would not discover a network scanner), but I finally found the solution.

Run # hp-setup -i, and download some hplip-plugins, and away you go. Discovered by xsane, scanning fine over the network. Pretty happy by at this point

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