The Linux Printing HOWTO
Grant Taylor,
<gtaylor+pht@picante.com>
v3.9, 25 July 1996
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).
1.
Intro
1.1 History
1.2 Copyright
2.
How to print
3.
Kernel printer devices
3.1 The lp device
3.2 Serial devices
4.
How it works, basic
5.
How to set things up, basic
5.1 Traditional lpd configuration
5.2 File Permissions
6.
How to obtain an appropriate magic filter
6.1 APS Filter
6.2 Magic-filter
6.3 The other Magicfilter
7.
Serial printers under lpd
7.1 Setting up in printcap
7.2 Older serial printers that drop characters
8.
Vendor Solutions
8.1 RedHat 2.x
8.2 Other Distributions
9.
How to print to a printer over the network
9.1 To a Unix/lpd host
9.2 With
lpd
9.3 With
rlpr
9.4 To a Win95, WinNT, LanManager, or Samba printer
9.5 To a NetWare Printer
9.6 To an EtherTalk (Apple) printer
9.7 To an HP or other ethernet printer
9.8 Running an
if
for remote printers
10.
How to print to a fax machine.
10.1 Using a faxmodem
10.2 Using the Remote Printing Service
11.
How to generate something worth printing.
11.1 Markup languages
11.2 WYSIWYG
12.
Ghostscript.
12.1 Ghostscript output tuning
13.
On-screen previewing of printable things.
13.1 PostScript
13.2 TeX dvi
14.
Credits