Since I moved to the German Telekom as provider I have not been able up to now to print over WLAN through my home printer. I find nearly no help in the manual of my router (a Speedport W724 V type B).
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This info works:
Go to
Add a printer
Select your printer model
Select the option AppSocket and use
socket://speedport.ip:9100
GUI/Ubuntu - After successful setup on my Kubuntu desktop, here is an answer for Kubuntu 18.04.3 LTS. (But look at the end for a general CUPS solution!)
Activate the printer and connect it by USB with the Speedport.
Essential step: search in the Kubuntu menu for a "printer" program, then install the printer manager and start it.
(using CLI: sudo system-config-printer & )
In the printer manager GUI, select add,printer, network printer, Find, which adds a device named (in my case) JetDirect(speedport.ip)(192.168.2.1) and finds a port number port=9100
Go on with: forward,HP,Officejet6210, name= Net-HP-OfficeJet6200, ok. Here as entered for my old HP from 2005. But the decisive advantage of system-config-printer over what I had tested before lays in the "find" step.
CUPS/Linux - In the Printer Manager double click on the icon of your new crated printer. I get "Device URI=socket://speedport.ip:9100",
which is exactly the net address of the printer for entering in CUPS (in your browser, over the URL=).
Whith this information you can setup and manage any printer type using CUPS alone. And this should work also outside Kubuntu.
