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Installing Printer Drivers on Linux Computers (CUPS)
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Installing Printer Drivers on Linux Computers (CUPS)
This section provides information for installing or setting up the printer driver with CUPS (Common UNIX Printing
System) on Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux
®
6.1 Desktop, SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, and Ubuntu
®
12.04.
Operation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Desktop
Setup Overview
1
Install the printer driver.
2
Set up the print queue.
3
Specify the default queue.
4
Specify the printing options.
Installing the Printer Driver
1
Select
Applications
System Tools
Terminal
.
2
Enter the following command in the terminal window.
The printer driver is installed.
Setting Up the Queue
To execute printing, you must set up the print queue on your workstation.
1
Open the URL
"http://localhost:631"
using a web browser.
2
Click
Administration
.
3
Click
Add Printer
.
4
Enter
root
as the user name, enter the administrator password, and click
OK
.
For network connections:
a
Select
LPD/LPR Host or Printer
from the
Other Network Printers
menu, and click
Continue
.
b
Enter the IP address of the printer in
Connection
, and click
Continue
.
Format:
lpd://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
(the IP address of the printer)
For USB connections:
a
Select your printer name from the
Local Printers
menu, and click
Continue
.
5
Enter the name of the printer in the
Name
text box in the
Add Printer
window, and click
Continue
.
You can optionally specify the location and description of the printer for further information.
6
Select
Dell
from the
Make
menu, and click
Continue
.
su
(Enter the administrator password)
rpm -ivh (Enter the file path)/Dell-Color-MFP-
E525w-x.x-x.noarch.rpm