The Linux Printing HOWTO

The Linux Printing HOWTO http://www.resoo.org/docs/printing/printing-howto.txt
Grant Taylor <gtaylor+pht@picante.com>
v3.30, 19 November 1999
This is the Linux Printing HOWTO, a collection of information on how
to generate, preview, print and fax anything under Linux (and other
Unices in general).
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Table of Contents
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?
4.3.1 Printer compatibility list
4.4 How to buy a printer
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
10.2.1 Output location and size
10.2.2 Gamma, dotsizes, etc.
11. How to print to a printer over the network
11.1 To a Unix/lpd host
11.1.1 With
11.1.2 With
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
11.5.1 To older HPs
11.6 Running an
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 Lexmarks
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.
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