Printing Documents in Linux
Printing in most Linux systems these days is provided by the Common UNIX Printing System
(CUPS) service. As a non-administrative user, you don??™t have a lot of control over how the
printers are configured. You can, however, check which printers are available to print to, check
the status of print queues (documents waiting to print), and remove any of your own queued
print jobs.
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Printing to the Default Printer
When your system administrator (or you) configured printers for your computer, one of those
printers was defined as the default printer. If you are not sure which printer is your default in a
Fedora or other Red Hat Linux distribution, type system-config-printer and look for the printer
with the check by it. For other Linux distributions, check the CUPS Web-based interface to see
how your printers are configured.
Most graphical word processors, such as StarOffice Writer and OpenOffice.org Writer, enable you
to choose a printer from those available. Some of the less sophisticated Linux utilities that run
from the command line, however, use only the default printer. For example, dvips (to print a
PostScript file) and groff -l (to print a troff/nroff file) automatically send the output to the
default printer.
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