In addition, a centrally
located printer can make it easier to maintain the printer, while still enabling everyone to get
his or her printing jobs done.
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The default printing service in nearly every major Linux distribution today is the Common UNIX
Printing Service (CUPS). Any Linux system that includes CUPS offers the CUPS Web-based administrative
interface for configuring CUPS printing. It also offers configuration files in the /etc/cups
directory for configuring printers and the CUPS service (cupsd daemon).
In Fedora systems, you can configure your printer with the Printer Configuration windows available
in both K Desktop and GNOME environments. A variety of drivers makes it possible to print
to different kinds of printers, as well as to printers that are connected to computers on the network.
You can set up your computer as a Linux print server, and you can also have your computer
emulate an SMB (Windows) print server. After your network is configured properly and a local
printer is installed, sharing that printer over the network as a UNIX or SMB print server is not
very complicated.
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Most networked computers are on the network in the first place so
that users can share information.
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