Find more network printers from the Ubuntu command line
Some of the network printers at work do not show up when I try to find them via the Ubuntu GUI System -> Administration -> Printing but I can find them via the command hp-probe. Here at work the list returned by hp-probe is long and I know the names I’m looking for start with “printer0″ so I do
hp-probe -bnet | grep printer0
This returns lines that contain a URI like this
hp:/net/HP_LaserJet_P3005?ip=159.92.99.39
Copy that and go back to the GUI where you paste it under “Enter device URI”