Adding Printers in UNIX/LinuxAXIS 5550 User’s Manual 73Debian 3.0Debian offers a choice between plain LPD, LPRng and CUPS. There areseveral printer configuration tools in this distribution, e.g. the apsfilter(version 5 or later), which adds support for LPRng and Ghostscript'suniprint driver scheme. Red Hat's printtool is also supported, for thosewho prefer GUI administration tools.For LPRng, LPD and CUPS use the Printtool.Invocation 1. From the Gnome desktop, select Main Menu (on the panel) => Debianmenus => Apps => System => Printtool.2. On the KDE desktop, select the Main Menu (on the Panel) => System =>Debian => Printtool.3. Open a terminal window and type the command printtool (in XTERM orGnome).Print Queues Five types of print queues can be configured with printconf in the Debiandistribution:• Local Printer• Unix Printer (lpd Spool• Windows Printer (SMB)• Novell Printer (NCP Queue)• JetDirect PrinterAdding a Remote UnixPrinter1. Start printtool and click Add.2. Select Remote Unix (lpd) Queue from the Printer Type menu, and click OK.3. Text fields for the following options appears:• Printer name — Enter a unique name for the printer. (The namecannot contain spaces and must begin with a letter. Valid charactersare a - z, A - Z, 0 - 9, -, and _.• Remote Host — The hostname or IP address of the remote machineto which the printer is attached.• Remote Queue and input filter — The remote printer queue andinput filter.4. Click Next to continue.5. Click Select to choose a printer driver and to set it up. Click OK. Finally, clickTest and print a test page.
