The Linux Printing HOWTO
Grant Taylor
<gtaylor+pht@picante.com>
v3.14, 23 September 1997
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.
Introduction
1.1 History
1.2 Copyright
2.
How to print
3.
Kernel printer devices
3.1 The lp device
3.2 The parport device (kernels >= 2.1.33)
3.3 Serial devices
4.
Supported Printers
5.
Which spooling software?
6.
How it works, basic
7.
How to set things up, basic
7.1 Traditional lpd configuration
7.2 File Permissions
8.
Getting Printing Software
8.1 Magicfilter
8.2 APS Filter
8.3 EZ-Magic
9.
Vendor Solutions
9.1 Red Hat
9.2 Other Distributions
10.
Ghostscript.
10.1 Invoking Ghostscript
10.2 Ghostscript output tuning
11.
How to print to a printer over the network
11.1 To a Unix/lpd host
11.2 To a Win95, WinNT, LanManager, or Samba printer
11.3 To a NetWare Printer
11.4 To an EtherTalk (Apple) printer
11.5 To an HP or other ethernet printer
11.6 Running an
if
for remote printers
11.7 From Windows.
11.8 From an Apple.
11.9 From Netware.
12.
How to print to a fax machine.
12.1 Using a faxmodem
12.2 Using the Remote Printing Service
13.
How to generate something worth printing.
13.1 Markup languages
13.2 WYSIWYG Word Processors
14.
On-screen previewing of printable things.
14.1 PostScript
14.2 TeX dvi
14.3 Adobe PDF
15.
Serial printers under lpd
15.1 Setting up in printcap
15.2 Older serial printers that drop characters
16.
Credits
