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Adding Printers in UNIX/Linux
AXIS 5900 User’s Manual 79
Debian 3.0
Debian offers a choice between plain LPD, LPRng and CUPS. There are
several printer configuration tools in this distribution, e.g. the apsfilter
(version 5 or later), which adds support for LPRng and Ghostscript's
uniprint driver scheme. Red Hat's printtool is also supported, for those
who prefer GUI administration tools.
For LPRng, LPD and CUPS use the Printtool.
Invocation 1. From the Gnome desktop, select Main Menu (on the panel) => Debian
menus => Apps => System => Printtool.
2. On the KDE desktop, select the Main Menu (on the Panel) => System =>
Debian => Printtool.
3. Open a terminal window and type the command
printtool (in XTERM or
Gnome).
Print Queues Five types of print queues can be configured with printconf in the Debian
distribution:
• Local Printer
• Unix Printer (lpd Spool
• Windows Printer (SMB)
• Novell Printer (NCP Queue)
•JetDirect Printer
Adding a Remote Unix
Printer
1. Start printtool and click Add.
2. Select Remote Unix (lpd) Queue from the Printer Type menu, and click OK.
Text fields for the following options appears:
• Printer name — Enter a unique name for the printer. (The name
cannot contain spaces and must begin with a letter. Valid characters
are a - z, A - Z, 0 - 9, -, and _.
• Remote Host — The hostname or IP address of the remote machine
to which the printer is attached.
• Remote Queue and input filter — The remote printer queue and
input filter.
3. Click Next to continue. Click Select to choose a printer driver and to set it up.
4. Click OK. Finally, click Test and print a test page.