Dell 1720 Laser Printer

[ghettosamson]

Some one please help me fix this problem. I am running Hardy Heron. I try to print to my Dell 1720 Laser printer and I cant. Under System>Administration>Printing I find my local printer but the make and model says Dell M5200 Foomatic/Postscript (recommended). What do I do? I try to change the driver but the only models that come up are 1100, 1110, M5200, ans S2500. When I do try to change it just to try it asks me for my password on localhost and I dont know what it is. Please Help.

[BruisedQuasar07]

Your question is not a Dell question. That may be why no one has responded. I would repost your problem in "general" or "beginner"
Sometimes you have to repost a few times before you get an answer.

There is so much activity here in the Ubuntu Forums that it makes a difference when you post a query. For instance, weekdays, during normal biz hours is not a good time. Late afternoon and evening is best.

There is an excellent Unbuntu area for printing. Just Google search Ubuntu printing or look for printing in the Ubuntu documentation

Bruised.

[ecuajosh]

it took me a whike to find this driver for this printer after days of search i found it.
you can download it from the following link :http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R149777&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=198972
i haven't tryed it yet .it's just downloading with my dial up at work so i'll be posting when the download finishes(1hr 20 min) thats crazy i had forgoten how slow dialup was!!!. lol

[linuxnewbi]

Hi you actually don't need to download this,
You can configure the printer to work with the Generic PCL 6/PCL XL driver.
details of how to do this are here ....
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&dl=false&l=en&s=gen&docid=30319125C176B28EE040A68F5B282820&doclang=en&cs=#2

Best wishes
S

[bigpook]

Just wanted to say that the above settings still work with Ubuntu 12.04