The Linux Printing HOWTO

Grant Taylor <gtaylor+pht@picante.com>

1. Introduction

• 1.1 History
• 1.2 Copyright

2. How to print

• 2.1 With PDQ
• 2.2 With LPD and the lpr command

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?
• 4.4 How to buy a printer

5. Which spooling software?

• 5.1 PDQ
• 5.2 LPRng
• 5.3 PPR
• 5.4 CUPS

6. How it works, basic

• 6.1 PDQ
• 6.2 LPD

7. How to set things up

• 7.1 Configuring PDQ
• 7.2 Configuring LPD

8. Vendor Solutions

• 8.1 Red Hat
• 8.2 Debian
• 8.3 SuSE
• 8.4 Other Distributions

9. Ghostscript.

• 9.1 Invoking Ghostscript
• 9.2 Ghostscript output tuning

10. How to print to a printer over the network

• 10.1 To a Unix/lpd host
• 10.2 To a Win95, WinNT, LanManager, or Samba printer
• 10.3 To a NetWare Printer
• 10.4 To an EtherTalk (Apple) printer
• 10.5 To an HP or other ethernet printer
• 10.6 Running an if for remote printers with old LPDs
• 10.7 From Windows.
• 10.8 From an Apple.
• 10.9 From Netware.

11. Windows-only printers

• 11.1 The Ghostscript Windows redirector
• 11.2 HP Winprinters
• 11.3 Lexmark Winprinters

12. How to print to a fax machine.

• 12.1 Using a faxmodem
• 12.2 Using the Remote Printing Service

13. How to generate something worth printing.

• 13.1 Markup languages
• 13.2 WYSIWYG Word Processors
• 13.3 Printing Photographs

14. On-screen previewing of printable things.

• 14.1 PostScript
• 14.2 TeX dvi
• 14.3 Adobe PDF

15. Serial printers under lpd

• 15.1 Setting up in printcap
• 15.2 Older serial printers that drop characters

16. Credits