22.3. Adding a New Printer

If you have just connected a printer to your system or want to access one connected to another system on a local network, you must add it to the printer daemon's configuration before any program on your Linux system can print to it. To do this, follow these steps:

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Click on the Add a new printer link on the module's main page. This will take you to the printer creation form shown in Figure 22.2 (the screenshot is taken from a system using the CUPS print system, so the user interface may not be the same on your Linux machine).
Figure 22.2. The Printer Creation form.

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Enter a unique name for the new printer (such as ...

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