Some of you may have seen some of my previous posts about my System76 laptop running Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS not printing to an HP OfficeJet Pro 6978. Today I had an interesting observation. I had gotten messages on boot that one of my partitions was low. So I booted from an old (18.04) Ubuntu CD so I could use the partition manager (Gparted) on it to rearrange some of the partitions. After that just for fun, I tried to print a file with the text editor on the CD. It found the printer, identified it correctly and printed just fine. The print manager on my hard drive identifies the printer, but when I try to print anything it says it can't find a printer on the network. Is there any way I can install the print manager from the old Ubuntu on the CD to my hard drive so it will print? Or should I just install the old Ubuntu and stick with that?
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