The Linux Printing HOWTO

Grant Taylor, <gtaylor+pht@picante.com>

1. Intro

• 1.1 History
• 1.2 Copyright

2. How to print

3. Kernel printer devices

• 3.1 The lp device
• 3.2 Serial devices

4. Which spooling software?

5. How it works, basic

6. How to set things up, basic

• 6.1 Traditional lpd configuration
• 6.2 File Permissions

7. How to obtain an appropriate magic filter

• 7.1 APS Filter
• 7.2 Magic-filter
• 7.3 The other Magicfilter

8. Serial printers under lpd

• 8.1 Setting up in printcap
• 8.2 Older serial printers that drop characters

9. Vendor Solutions

• 9.1 RedHat 2.x and 3.0.3 (Picasso)
• 9.2 Other Distributions

10. How to print to a printer over the network

• 10.1 To a Unix/lpd host
• 10.2 With lpd
• 10.3 With rlpr
• 10.4 To a Win95, WinNT, LanManager, or Samba printer
• 10.5 To a NetWare Printer
• 10.6 To an EtherTalk (Apple) printer
• 10.7 To an HP or other ethernet printer
• 10.8 Running an if for remote printers

11. How to print to a fax machine.

• 11.1 Using a faxmodem
• 11.2 Using the Remote Printing Service

12. How to generate something worth printing.

• 12.1 Markup languages
• 12.2 WYSIWYG

13. Ghostscript.

• 13.1 Ghostscript output tuning

14. On-screen previewing of printable things.

• 14.1 PostScript
• 14.2 TeX dvi

15. Credits