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 Last revision of this document: 
2007-09-24

Prerequisites to understand the content of this document:

* General knowledge how to enter a command on the command-line; respectively hot to start applications using a GUI

Approximate expenditure of time to work over this document:

Time to work on: ca. 30 minutes for each alternative installation.

The application to configure a printer is started by the selection of
Menu (red Hat) – System Settings - Printing.

If the printer was already configured by the Hardware Detection program, it is already listed in the display.

If you want to change the symbolic name of the Queue, please click onto the icon [Edit] and continue with the next step (Rename the QueueName); otherwise continue with Review Driver Options fort.

If the printer was not found by the Hardware Detection the following display appears.

In that case please click ontot the icon [New] and continue with the step Add a new Print Queue .

After clicking the icon [Edit] a new window opens.

Within this window you might change the 'Queue Name'. This name is shown in lists to choose a printer from when a print-job is started.

In this example the 'Queue Name' was changed from lp0 to A4_white .

By clicking onto the icon [OK] the window will be closed again.

Please continue with the step Treiberoptionen überprüfen.

If the printer was not recognized and configured by the Hardware Detection, configuration of the printer will be started by clicking onto the icon [New] and a new window will appear.

This windows contains the information, that the configuration of your printer will be started by clicking onto the icon [Forward].

This window allows to set the 'Queue Name' and 'Queue Type'.

In this example the 'Queue Name' A4_white was chosen.

Furthermore the information, how the printer is connected to the computer. As this document covers only printers, that are directly connected to a PC, 'Local Printer' is selected.

The next step of this installation instruction is reached after clicking onto the icon [Forward] .

Within this step, the choice, at which interface the printer is connected' has to be made.

The PC used for this example has 2 printer-interfaces of type 'parallel' – which are shown for selection.
If the PC would have been equipped with an USB-connection, this choice would also have been listed.

After chosing the correct interface, please click onto the icon [Forward] to go to the next step.

The driver for the attached printer is determined within this step.

For this purpose, manufacturers are listed (not visible any more at that example).
By clicking onto the triangle left of the manufacturers name, all printer-models, where a driver is contained in the installed Linux-package, are listed below the manufacturers name.
With a further click onto the triangle left of the printer-model, all available drivers are listed.
The recommended driver is marked by (*) .

Possible pitfall:
Selecting just the printer-model is not sufficient; there has to be selected a driver too.

If your printer-model is not listed:
If you installed an older version of Linux (e.g. RedHat Version 8.0 for the 'Router') it might occur that your newer printer-model is not listed.
That is not a problem as long as you do not want to start a printout from the PC the printer is connected to.
Either choose a predecessor-model of the same manufacturer
or select 'Raw Print Queue' (at top of the list, before the manufacturers list start).
Control of the printer is then handed over to the workstation-PC that is accessing the printer.
If there a correct driver for the printer is installed (e.g. with a newer version of Linux or Windows), the printer receives correct preprocessed data.

The final step of the installation will be reached by clicking onto the icon [Forward] .

Finally, a summary of the installation just carried out is shown.

The window will be closed by clicking onto the icon [Apply] .

By selecting the printer and clicking the icon [Edit] at the window for the Printer Configuration, a new window with possible adjustments will be opened.

The appearance depends highly on the configured printer-driver and might be highly different at your installed printer.

Usually, the values are set automatically.
It is recommended to review the following values:
Page Size:
This value is set depending on the selected language (e.g. 'A4' for Deutsch (German), 'Letter' for English) and might therefore be different from the paper used.
Ink Type (print-heads):
This value is changeable if the print-heads of the printer can be changed (e.g. 'Black Only', '4-Color', 'Photo').

This window will be closed by clicking onto the icon [OK] .

By clicking onto the icon [Apply] changes will be stored and become valid.

A confirmation window (no illustration shown) will appear thereafter.

The print-out of a test-page will be started by selecting Test and the desired page-size thereafter.