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The Linux Printing HOWTO

Grant Taylor <gtaylor+pht@picante.com>

1. Introduction

• 1.1 History
• 1.2 Copyright

2. How to print

3. Kernel printer devices

• 3.1 The lp device (kernels <=2.1.32)
• 3.2 The parport device (kernels >= 2.1.33)
• 3.3 Serial devices

4. Supported Printers

• 4.1 Postscript
• 4.2 Non-Postscript
• 4.3 What printers work?

5. Which spooling software?

6. How it works, basic

7. How to set things up, basic

• 7.1 Traditional lpd configuration
• 7.2 File Permissions

8. Getting Printing Software

9. Vendor Solutions

• 9.1 Red Hat
• 9.2 Debian
• 9.3 Other Distributions

10. Ghostscript.

• 10.1 Invoking Ghostscript
• 10.2 Ghostscript output tuning

11. How to print to a printer over the network

• 11.1 To a Unix/lpd host
• 11.2 To a Win95, WinNT, LanManager, or Samba printer
• 11.3 To a NetWare Printer
• 11.4 To an EtherTalk (Apple) printer
• 11.5 To an HP or other ethernet printer
• 11.6 Running an if for remote printers
• 11.7 From Windows.
• 11.8 From an Apple.
• 11.9 From Netware.

12. Windows-only printers

• 12.1 The Ghostscript Windows redirector
• 12.2 The pbm2ppa program
• 12.3 The pbm2l7k program

13. How to print to a fax machine.

• 13.1 Using a faxmodem
• 13.2 Using the Remote Printing Service

14. How to generate something worth printing.

• 14.1 Markup languages
• 14.2 WYSIWYG Word Processors

15. On-screen previewing of printable things.

• 15.1 PostScript
• 15.2 TeX dvi
• 15.3 Adobe PDF

16. Serial printers under lpd

• 16.1 Setting up in printcap
• 16.2 Older serial printers that drop characters

17. Credits