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Adding Printers in UNIX/Linux
AXIS 5500 / AXIS 5550 User’s Manual 73
Solaris 9 The printing tool is called Printer Administrator. This operating
environment has an integrated printer driver list, but does not have
printer detection functionality.
Instructions:
Type the command /usr/sadm/admin/bin/printmgr in a Terminal
window.
SuSE YaST2 is the recommended printing tool. It contains a printer driver list
as well as printer detection capability.
Instructions:
To start the Printer Configuration tool, select this from the Desktop:
YaST2 menu button (on the panel) | In Yast Control Center | Hardware |
Edit Printers
Notes:
Typical Invocation via a Windows Manager
Using the Mandrake 8.2 distribution (with CUPS installed) and the KDE
windows manger as an example, a typical set-up begins with starting
Mandrake Control Center.
Click Hardware | Printer and the Printerdrake application will be
invoked.
Click Expert Mode to be able to add a network printer.
Click the Add a new printer button.
Print Queues Five types of print queues can be configured in the Mandrake
distribution:
•Local Printer
• Printer on remote lpd server
• Network printer (TCP/Socket)
• Printer on SMB/Windows 95/98/NT server
• A printer device URl
• A versatile IPP client for UNIX/Linux is CUPS. It can be downloaded from the Common Unix
Printing System’s Web site at www.cups.org
• If you don't find your specific printer in your distribution, have a look at
http://www.linuxprinting.org/database.html