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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers printing a Unix file Post 60109 by locustfurnace on Monday 10th of January 2005 06:13:07 AM
Old 01-10-2005
If you did not search the forum, you might want to try doing this, since there are already many topics on printing. If you do not see the printing topics, in this board, set the "Show Threads" to "last year" and you'll see them all.

Depending on which OS your running, and how you need to print, it can be relatively simple to alittle difficult to setup.
Yes, you can print to ink jet printers.
If your printer is hooked up via a parallel port, you can try printing right now. Turn printer on. open a terminal, and as root or su try the command

ls > /dev/lp0

This may work or may not, if it does work then it should print out a directory listing. Though the quality will not be there, it does work quickly.

If you using GNU/Linux or BSD, then you can use either LPRing or CUPS for your print server.
If your using some other UNIX brand, try searching the man pages for printing help.

man -k printing
 

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system-config-printer-applet

SYSTEM-CONFIG-PRIN(1)						     Man pages						     SYSTEM-CONFIG-PRIN(1)

NAME

       system-config-printer-applet - print job manager

SYNOPSIS

       system-config-printer-applet [--help] [--version] [--debug]

DESCRIPTION

       system-config-printer-applet is a print job manager for CUPS. Normally it will display a printer icon in the notification area, greyed out
       when there are no print jobs for the current user. Clicking on the icon displays a simple print job manager for cancelling or reprinting
       jobs.

       To save memory, the applet waits first of all until the user has printed a job before putting the icon in the notification area. To invoke
       the print job manager before a job has been printed, run the applet with the --no-tray-icon option: a desktop file is provided for this, so
       that it should appear in the system menu.

       As well as displaying a printer icon in the notification area, the applet also provides a D-BUS server for the
       com.redhat.PrintDriverSelection interface, to help configure a new printer when it is plugged in.

OPTIONS

       --help
	   Display a short usage message.

       --version
	   Display the version of the applet.

       --debug
	   Show debugging information.

AUTHOR

       Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
	   Author.

system-config-printer						    24 Nov 2010 					     SYSTEM-CONFIG-PRIN(1)
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