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D. BothUsing and Administering Linux: Volume 2https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9615-8_26

26. Printing

David Both1  
(1)
Raleigh, NC, USA
 

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn

  • How to install a printer and make it available to the VM

  • To describe the flow of a print data stream

  • To determine how well a printer is supported by the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) under Linux

  • To select an appropriately well-supported printer for Linux

  • To select an appropriate PostScript Printer Description (PPD) file for a printer when an exact match is not available

  • To configure a print queue from the command line using CUPS

  • To manage print queues, to enable and ...

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