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190 Chapter 21. Printer Conﬁguration

Click the Apply button in the main window to save your changes to the /etc/printcap

conﬁguration ﬁle and restart the printer daemon (lpd). After applying the changes, print a

test page to ensure the conﬁguration is correct. Refer to Section 21.7 for details.

If you need to print characters beyond the basic ASCII set (including those used for

languages such as Japanese), you need to go to your driver options and select Prerender

Postscript. Refer to Section 21.8 for details. You can also conﬁgure options such as paper

size if you edit the print queue after adding it.

21.7. Printing a Test Page

After you have conﬁgured your printer, you should print a test page to make sure the printer

is functioning properly. To print a test page, select the printer that you want to test from the

printer list, and select the appropriate test page from the Test pulldown menu.

If you change the print driver or modify the driver options, you should print a test page to

test the different conﬁguration.

21.8. Modifying Existing Printers

To delete an existing printer, select the printer and click the Delete button on the toolbar. The

printer will be removed from the printer list. Click Apply to save the changes and restart the

printer daemon.

To set the default printer, select the printer from the printer list and click the Default button

on the toolbar. The default printer icon

appears in the ﬁrst column of the printer list

beside the default printer.

If you want to modify an imported printer’s settings, you cannot modify its settings directly.

You must override the printer. You can only override an imported printer that has been

imported using the alchemist libraries. Imported printers have the

symbol beside them

in the ﬁrst column of the printer list.

To override the printer, select the printer, and choose File => Override Queue from the

pulldown menu. After overriding a printer, the original imported printer will have the

symbol beside it in the ﬁrst column of the printer list.

After adding your printer(s), you can edit settings by selecting the printer from the printer

list and clicking the Edit button. The tabbed window shown in Figure 21-16 will appear.

The window contains the current values for the printer that you selected to edit. Make any

changes, and click OK. Click Apply in the main printconf window to save the changes and

restart the printer daemon.