Comment 6 for bug 1630272

> I tried both methods, and they both found the printer. On my LAN my Epson workforce pro 4530 is "epson-wp" at 192.168.111.110. However with both methods it seemed to find and list it about 70 times.

Yes I have had similar issues when installing a network printer. I feel installing the Network Printer in Ubuntu is rather 'messed up' as you said. That is pretty accurate.

I wish there was a straight forward process of selecting a printer via HOST, and pointing to a driver if needed (if your printer is not listed), and then your done.

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A few weeks ago I setup a Brother DCPL2540DW network printer (static IP 192.168.1.15), but the model was not listed in Ubuntu's Add-Printer. I downloaded the print driver from Brothers website for Linux (they provide Deb & RPM formats.

The Brother Driver Install Tool works beautifully. Its a small Bash script you run, and it downloads & installed the print drivers (via deb) for you. "The tool will install LPR, CUPSwrapper driver and scanner driver (for scanner models)."

http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=dcpl2540dw_us_as&os=128

Following Brothers simple instructions on the download screen, you select "Yes" for "Device URI" and you can specify the IP address *(See below).

Note this installs the printer & scanner completely in Linux, and you don't need to use the Add Printer option in Ubuntu at all. But this only works if your printer vendors provides instructions to install their own printer installation software.

It would be better though to simply install the printer using the Ubuntu GUI as its designed.

Will you specify the Device URI? [y/N] ->Y

0: ipp
1: ipps
2: lpd
3: socket
4: beh
5: hp
6: https
7: ipp14
8: smb
9: http
10: hpfax
11 (I): Specify IP address.
select the number of destination Device URI. ->6