Raspberry Pi can't print to wireless printer

Question

I can print to my wireless printer from my laptop just fine, but I'm having trouble getting it to work from my Raspberry Pi. I found some instructions that said to install cups-client, then edit the cups client.conf file. However, after installing cups-client I didn't have the etc/cups directory. I tried also installing cups and found that the directory was created after that, but I still did not have the .conf file. I found an example file in /usr/share/doc/libcups2/examples and copied it to the cups directory. I then added ServerName [IP of my printer]:631 and tried printing again, but it still didn't work. I tried using lpr but nothing prints, and in LibreOffice the only printer listed is Generic Printer. lpstat doesn't output anything, and when I run lpstat -t I get

scheduler is running no system default destination lpstat: -1 not supported! lpstat: -1 not supported! lpstat: -1 not supported! lpstat: -1 not supported!

Similarly, most other lpstat options give the not supported error. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?

Answer 1

I don't have any experience with wireless printing via CUPS, but in the past I've had to setup a driver to get CUPS working over USB.

This page might help: https://www.openprinting.org/drivers. I'd also test connecting it via USB first.

Apologies if I couldn't be of more help. Hoping someone with a bit more experience comes along...