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Configuring a Remote Printer Using Red Hat's PrintTool

by Tammy Fox
Last Modified: Wednesday, 19-May-2004 11:55:36 EDT

Introduction
    PrintTool is a Red Hat utility to configure a printer in Linux. This utility is a graphical interface that modifies the /etc/printcap configuration file. The daemon lpd controls print access in Linux. You must be root to add a printer and restart the daemon. After modifying the /etc/printcap configuration file either through PrintTool or by hand, you must restart the lpd daemon for the changes to take effect.
You can configure your Linux machine to print to a printer connected to another Linux machine on your network. This is called a remote printer. If you are using Red Hat Linux 7.1 or higher, PrintTool is replaced with Printconf, and these instructions do not apply.

Configuring Printtool for a Remote Printer
   
  1. As root, start PrintTool as root with the command printtool.

  2. To add a remote printer, Click the Add button and choose Remote Unix (lpd) Queue from the menu and Click OK.

  3. The default settings for the first three items will usually work here.
  4. Enter the hostname or IP address of the machine connected to the printer in the Remote Host text field.
  5. In the text area for Remote Queue, enter lp or the name of the printer on the remote machine.
  6. Click the Select button and choose the type of remote printer, resolution, paper size, and other print options in the dialog box that appears.
  7. Click OK and OK again in the other dialog box.
  8. You should now see the remote printer listed in the printtool window.
  9. Restart the lpd daemon by choosing lpd-->Restart lpd from the pulldown menu.
  10. To test your printer, choose Tests-->Print ASCII test page from the pulldown menu.
  11. The remote machine must be setup to accept print jobs from your machine. See Print Sharing for this configuration.


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