Book I Chapter 3 Troubleshooting and Configuring Linux
Book I Chapter 3 Troubleshooting and Configuring Linux Setting Up Printers 81 Setting Up Printers In most Linux distributions, you have to set up any printers after you install the distribution. The following sections outline the printer configuration steps for each of the distributions on this book s DVD Debian, Fedora Core, SUSE, Knoppix, and Xandros. Configuring printers in Debian Debian comes with the foomatic-gui utility that enables you to configure a printer through a graphical interface, as shown in Figure 3-1. To configure a printer, connect the printer to the appropriate port parallel or USB and turn it on. Then follow these steps: 1. Select Main Menu.System.Printers from the GUI desktop to start the foomatic-gui. If you are not logged in as root, a dialog box prompts you for the root password. If you cannot find the menu item, open a terminal window, type su - to become root, and then type export DISPLAY=:0.0; foomatic-gui. The foomatic-gui utility displays its main window, as shown in Figure 3-1. 2. Click Add on the toolbar. (Refer to Figure 3-1.) The foomatic-gui tool starts the Add Printer wizard (see Figure 3-2) that guides you through the process of adding a new printer to your system. 3. Click Forward. The Add Printer wizard displays a number of different connection types for the printer. Select your printer connection from the list. To add a network-connected printer, click Detect Network Printers, and you should see a list of printers, including Windows printers, available on your network. After you select the printer connection, foomatic-gui requests a name for the queue used to hold print jobs for that printer. Figure 3-1: Use the foomatic-gui to configure and manage printers in Debian.
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