I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my wife's HP 14 Chromebook via Crouton method.
The main reason was Libre Office, which she likes a lot more than the "Microsoft Word Online" option in Chrome OS. Anyways, I have everything working, but was curious if there is a way to hook up her HP printer and have it recognized via USB by the Ubuntu interface. Her printer is not WiFi or cloud enabled. It's simply USB. Otherwise it's a perfectly good working printer. Will installing Common Unix Printing System make this work for me? On blind faith, I plugged in the printer to the chromebook running Ubuntu environment, but when I clicked print, I got the error asking for localhost.
Because Chromebook is only cloudprint, I'm thinking this is a Hardware issue, not software. So that's why I'm hesitant to install anything that could be uneccessary.
Or is it possible WINE would be a solution?
Also>for reference in installing Ubuntu environment on Chromebook HP 14 : InstallUbuntuOnChROMEBOOK
Edit: Here's a screenshot of what I'm looking at when opening "Printer" in hardware settings.
And then when I hit the "Connect" button:
And then finally, when I click "Connect" on second prompt, I get:
CUPS server error: There was an error during the CUPS operation."failed to connect to server"
Best Answer
I found a working solution in the crouton wiki: