Datasheet

“main” (Installation and Administration) — 2004/6/25 — 13:29 — page 72 — #98

Advanced Settings Normally, there should be no need to change any of

these settings.

Conﬁguration for Applications

Applications rely on the existing printer queues in the same way as any

command-line tools do. There is usually no need to reconﬁgure the printer

for a particular application, as you should be able to print from applica-

tions using the available queues.

Printing from the Command Line To print from the command line, enter

the command lp -d hqueuenamei hfilenamei, substituting the

corresponding names for hqueuenamei and hﬁlenamei.

Printing from Applications Using the Command-Line Tool

Some applications rely on the above-mentioned lp command for

printing. In this case, enter the correct command in the application’s

print dialog (but usually without specifying hﬁlenamei), for example,

lp -d hqueuenamei. To make this work with KDE programs,

enable ‘Print through an external program’. Otherwise you cannot

enter the print command.

Using the CUPS Printing System Tools such as xpp and the KDE pro-

gram kprinter provide a graphical interface to choose among queues

and to set both CUPS standard options and printer-speciﬁc options as

made available through the PPD ﬁle. You can use kprinter as the stan-

dard printing interface of other (non-KDE) applications by specifying

kprinter or kprinter --stdin as the print command in the print

dialogs of these applications. The behavior of the application itself de-

termines which of these two commands to choose. If set up correctly,

the application should call the kprinter dialog whenever a print job is

issued from it, so you can use the dialog to select a queue and to set

other printing options. This requires that the application’s own print

setup does not conﬂict with that of kprinter and that printing options

are only changed through kprinter after it has been enabled.

Troubleshooting

If there is some kind of error in the communication between the com-

puter and the printer, the printer may no longer be able to interpret data

in the correct way. This could cause the output to be garbled and use up

large amounts of paper. To correct this, follow the instructions in Sec-

tion 13.7.8 on page 315.

72 2.4. Hardware