adding network printer

[notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de>]

Hallo,

I have spent hours on this, including the debian website.

I have installed CUPS and have done "apt-cache policy printer-driver all."

I used localhost/631 to add the printer and I'm on Jessie with xfce.

and so the uri for the wired canon printer is lpd: // (ip)/queue

I can ping the printer's ip and get a response, using the machine with
Jessie.

But all print jobs sent produce different errors, from "the printer is
in use" to "not connected."

I have checked /etc/cups/printers.conf file to ensure the uri is correct.

I'm really upset. If you can help, this would be great.

Thanks a lot.