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Chapter 26 . Running a Print Server 697 Configuring Local Printers in Red Hat Add a local printer (in other words, a printer connected directly to your computer) with the Printer Configuration window using the following procedure. (See the Choosing a Printer sidebar if you don t yet have a printer.) Connect your printer before starting this procedure. This enables the printer software to autodetect the printer s location and to immediately test the printer when you have finished adding it. Tip Choosing a Printer The PostScript language is the preferred format for Linux and UNIX printing and has been for many years. Every major word-processing product that runs on Fedora, Red Hat Linux, SUSE, Debian, and UNIX systems supports PostScript printing, so a printer that natively supports PostScript printing is sure to work in Linux. If you get a PostScript printer and it is not explicitly shown in the list of supported printers, simply select the PostScript filter when you install the printer locally. No special drivers are needed. Your next best option is to choose a printer that supports PCL. In either case, make sure that the PostScript or PCL is implemented in the printer hardware and not in the Windows driver. Avoid printers that are referred to as Winprinters. These printers use nonstandard printing interfaces (those other than PostScript or PCL). Support for these low-end printers is hit or miss. For example, some low-end HP DeskJet printers use the pnm2ppa driver to print documents in Printing Performance Architecture (PPA) format. Some Lexmark printers use the pbm217k driver to print. Although drivers are available for many of these Winprinters, many of them are not fully supported. Ghostscript may also support your printer; if it does, you can use it to do your printing. Ghostscript (found at www.ghostscript.com) is a free PostScript-interpreter program. It can convert PostScript content to output that can be interpreted by a variety of printers. There are both GNU and Aladdin Ghostscript drivers available. Although the latest Aladdin drivers are not immediately released under the GPL, you can use older Aladdin drivers that are licensed under the GNU. You ll find an excellent list of printers supported in Linux at www.linuxprinting.org (select the Printer Listing link). I strongly recommend that you visit that site before you purchase a printer to work with Linux. In addition to showing supported printers, the site also has a page describing how to choose a printer for use with Linux (www.linuxprinting .org/suggested.html).
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