Printer not found, except in Chrome

[retiredatlast]

If I click the menu icon in the top right of this Forum page, I find Print in the drop down. Selecting Print opens a dialog for my Canon Pixma MG6600 which enables me to print the displayed page perfectly. But neither the rpi 3 text editor nor the office writer can find the printer. They offer print to PDF or a generic printer. I have not been able to find a way to set and configure my printer as the default for all rpi 3 applications. I am probably trying too hard and overlooking something that should have been obvious to me. Thank you for any help you can provide.

[kusti8]

You installed cups and configured that? If not then you need to do that. Plenty of tutorials online.

[retiredatlast]

Thank you very much. Most of the tutorials I found when trying to lean how to set up rpi3 failed to mention anything about printing in general or CUPS in particular. You set me on the right path. I have installed CUPS and I found my printer in the list. I still cant print but I believe I can work that out. I appreciate your help.

[fruitoftheloom]

Thank you very much. Most of the tutorials I found when trying to lean how to set up rpi3 failed to mention anything about printing in general or CUPS in particular. You set me on the right path. I have installed CUPS and I found my printer in the list. I still cant print but I believe I can work that out. I appreciate your help.

You will likely need the gutenprint driver package as well:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install printer-driver-gutenprint

[scruss]

And if you want the printer finding/setup to be fairly graphical, I suggest installing the system-config-printer package. It adds a GUI to the preferences menu.