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INSTALLATION ------------ Uninstall LPD: rpm -e rhs-printfilters lpr Install all CUPS-related packages: rpm -Uvh <package> Following packages have to be installed (best in this order): /cooker/RPMS/ghostscript-5.50-16mdk.i586.rpm /cooker/RPMS/ghostscript-module-SVGALIB-5.50-16mdk.i586.rpm /cooker/RPMS/ghostscript-module-X-5.50-16mdk.i586.rpm /cooker/RPMS/cups-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm /cooker/RPMS/cups-drivers-0.3.6-4mdk.noarch.rpm /cooker/RPMS/xpp-0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm With Lexmark 1100, 1020, 1000 also /cooker/RPMS/lm1100-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm With cheap HP inkjets also /cooker/RPMS/pnm2ppa-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm Reboot or start the CUPS daemon manually: /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups start CONFIGURATION ------------- for further information about CUPS usage and administration go to http://localhost:631/sam.html Enter the CUPS administration interface: netscape http://localhost:631/printers/ & and click on "Add printer". If you are asked to log in, log in as "root" on your machine. Choose a printer name (short but for easy association with the printer), location and discription can be left empty and click "Continue". Choose the type of the printer's connection and "Continue". If necessary, you are asked about additional information about the conection now. Enter it and press "Continue". On the screen appearing now choose the manufacturer of your printer and click "Continue". Now you will be asked for the model. Choose it or at least a similar one. After clicking "Continue" now your printer is configured. Click on "Printers" in the bar at the top. You are back on the printers list and your recently configured printer should be listed. If not, click the "Reload" button of your web browser. Now you see some administration command buttons for your printer. Click on "Configure Printer". On the screen appearing then set up the correct options which should be defaults of the printer. The paper size must be according to the paper usually loaded. The "Installed Options" must be the ones really installed at your printer. Wrong settings can prevent your printer from printing. If you do a change in one section, click the appropriate "Continue" button. Use the "Back" function of your browser to get back to do changes in the other sections. When you are done click on "Printers" at the top, go to the list entry of your printer and click on "Print Test Page" to see if all works fine. If something is wrong now, revise your connection or driver choice by the "Modify Printer" button and your defaults by the "Configure Printer" button. When you have returned the borrowed printer, click on "Delete Printer" to remove the entry of that printer. Repeat the steps shown above for all your printers. PRINTING On the command line enter lpr -P <printer name> <options> <file name> as you were used to do it with LPD (the former printing system). Further information you get on http://localhost:631/sum.html For more comfortable printing and easy choosing of a lot of options enter xpp <file name> You get a graphical interface for choosing the printer and the options for the chosen printer. The "Options" button leads to the options dialog, where the first two tabs show options you can use on all printers, the other tabs are printer-specific and different for every printer model. When you change options and tabs and other options get red, the options are conflicting and cannot be used at the same time. Change one of them. Click "Save options" so that the chosen options get your personal defaults (also for "lpr"). Click on "This printer as default" to make the current printer your default one (also valid for "lpr"). Further information in /usr/share/doc/xpp-0.4/README (section: Usage tips)
