openSUSE Linux Unleashed

Chapter 7. Printing with openSUSE

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Printing: An Overview

• Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)

• Configuring Printers with YaST

• Configuring CUPS and Network Printers with KDEPrint

• Printing with CUPS

• Working with the Portable Document Format (PDF)

• Console Print Control

• Avoiding Printing Problems

• References

Until relatively recently, printing in Linux has been something of a chore. As the hardware got cheaper, the proprietary drivers got more specialized and more valuable to their vendors. Open-source drivers for the most popular inkjet printers were hard to come by, and different distributions did printing differently, even though the protocol they used was the same. This situation has changed dramatically since the advent of the Common Unix Printing ...