Installation guide

192 Chapter 21. Printer Configuration
21.8.4. Driver Options
The Driver Options tab displays advanced printer options. Options vary for each print
driver. Common options include:
• Send Form-Feed (FF) should be selected if the last page of your print job is not ejected from
the printer (for example, the form feed light flashes). If this does not work, try selecting
Send End-of-Transmission (EOT) instead. Some printers require both Send Form-Feed
(FF) and Send End-of-Transmission (EOT) to eject the last page.
• Send End-of-Transmission (EOT) if sending a form-feed does not work. Refer to Send FF
above.
• Assume Unknown Data is Text should be selected if your print driver does not recognize
some of the data sent to it. Only select it if you are having problems printing. If this option
is selected, the print driver will assume that any data that it can not recognize is text and
try to print it as text. If you select this option and Convert Text to Postscript, the print
driver will assume the unknown data is text and then convert it to PostScript.
• Prerender Postscript should be selected if you are printing characters beyond the basic
ASCII set but they are not printing correctly (such as Japanese characters). This option
will prerender non-standard PostScript fonts so that they are printed correctly.
If your printer does not support the fonts you are trying to print, try selecting this option.
For example, you should select this option if you are printing Japanese fonts to a non-
Japanese printer.
Extra time is required to perform this action. Do not choose it unless you are having prob-
lems printing the correct fonts.
• Convert Text to Postscript is selected by default. If your printer can print plain text, try
unselecting this when printing plain text documents to decrease the time it takes to print.
• Page Size allows you to select the paper size for your printer such as US Letter, US Legal,
A3, and A4.
• Effective Filter Locale defaults to C. If you are printing Japanese characters, select ja_JP.
Otherwise, accept the default of C.
If you modify the driver options, click OK to return to the main window. Click Apply to
save the change and restart the printer daemon.
21.9. Saving the Configuration File
When you save your printer configuration using printconf, it creates its own configuration
file that is used to create the /etc/printcap file that the printer daemon (lpd) reads. You can
use the command line options to save or restore this file. If you save your /etc/printcap
file and overwrite your existing /etc/printcap file with the saved file, your printer con-
figuration will not be restored. Each time the printer daemon is restarted, it creates a new
/etc/printcap file from the special printconf configuration file. If you have configured a
backup system for your configuration files, you should use the following method to save
your printer configuration. If you added any custom settings in the /etc/printcap.local
file, you should save it as part of your backup system also.
To save your printer configuration, type this command as root:
/usr/sbin/printconf-tui --Xexport > settings.xml