Setting
up a print server can save money by eliminating the need for a printer at
every workstation. Some of those savings can be used to buy printers that
can output more pages per minute or have higher-quality output.
You can attach printers to your Linux system to make them available to users
of that system (standalone printing) or to other computers on the network as
a shared printer. You can also configure your Linux printer as a remote CUPS
or Samba printer. With Samba, you are emulating Windows printing services,
which is pretty useful given the abundance of Windows client systems.
This chapter describes configuring and using printers on Linux systems with
various desktop environments in use. Some of the details may vary from one
distribution to another, but the information included here should work well for
the more commonly used distributions. This chapter focuses on the Common
UNIX Printing Service (CUPS), which is the recommended print service for
the majority of Linux installations. Examples in this chapter use the Printer
Configuration options in the GNOME and K Desktop environments.
Once a local printer is configured, print commands such as lpr are available
for carrying out the actual printing. Commands also exist for querying print
queues (lpq), manipulating print queues (lpc), and removing print queues
(lprm).
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