The Linux Printing HOWTO

Grant Taylor

Version $Revision: 5.10 ,ドル $Date: 2000年09月18日 05:06:17 $

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. History

1.2. Copyright

2. Quick Start

3. How to print

3.1. With PDQ

3.2. With LPD and the lpr command

3.3. GUI Printing Tools

4. Kernel printer devices

4.1. The lp device (kernels <=2.1.32)

4.2. The parport device (kernels >= 2.1.33)

4.3. Serial devices

4.4. USB Devices

5. Supported Printers

5.1. Postscript

5.2. Non-Postscript

5.3. What printers work?

5.4. How to buy a printer

6. Spooling software

6.1. LPD

6.2. PDQ

6.3. LPRng

6.4. PPR

6.5. CUPS

7. How it all works

7.1. PDQ

7.2. LPD

8. How to set things up

8.1. Configuring PDQ

8.2. Configuring LPD

8.3. Large Installations

8.4. Accounting

9. Vendor Solutions

9.1. Red Hat

9.2. Debian

9.3. SuSE

9.4. Caldera

9.5. Corel

9.6. Mandrake

9.7. Other Distributions

10. Ghostscript.

10.1. Invoking Ghostscript

10.2. Ghostscript output tuning

11. Networks

11.1. Printing to a Unix/lpd host

11.2. Printing to a Windows or Samba printer

11.3. Printing to a NetWare Printer

11.4. Printing to an EtherTalk (Apple) printer

11.5. Printing to a networked printer

11.6. Running an if for remote printers with old LPDs

11.7. From Windows.

11.8. From an Apple.

11.9. From Netware.

11.10. Networked Printer Administration

12. Windows-only printers

12.1. The Ghostscript Windows redirector

12.2. HP Winprinters

12.3. Lexmark Winprinters

13. How to print to a fax machine.

13.1. Using a faxmodem

13.2. Using the Remote Printing Service

13.3. Commercial Faxing Services

14. How to generate something worth printing.

14.1. Markup languages

14.2. WYSIWYG Word Processors

15. Printing Photographs

15.1. Ghostscript and Photos

15.2. Paper

15.3. Printer Settings

15.4. Print Durability

15.5. Shareware and Commercial Software

16. On-screen previewing of printable things.

16.1. PostScript

16.2. TeX dvi

16.3. Adobe PDF

17. Serial printers under lpd

17.1. Setting up in printcap

17.2. Older serial printers that drop characters

18. What's missing?

18.1. Plumbing

18.2. Fonts

18.3. Metadata

18.4. Drivers

19. Credits

Index