Axis Communications Network Print Servers 用户手册

AXIS 5500 / AXIS 5550 User’s Manual

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The printing tool is called Printer Administrator. This operating 

environment has an integrated printer driver list, but does not have 

printer detection functionality. 

Instructions:

Type the command /usr/sadm/admin/bin/printmgr in a Terminal 

window.

YaST2 is the recommended printing tool. It contains a printer driver list 

as well as printer detection capability.

Instructions:

To start the Printer Configuration tool, select this from the Desktop:

YaST2 menu button (on the panel) | In Yast Control Center | Hardware | 

Using the Mandrake 8.2 distribution (with CUPS installed) and the KDE 

windows manger as an example, a typical set-up begins with starting 

Mandrake Control Center. 

Click Hardware | Printer and the Printerdrake application will be 

invoked.

Click Expert Mode to be able to add a network printer.

Click the Add a new printer button.

Print Queues

Five types of print queues can be configured in the Mandrake 

distribution: 

•

Local  Printer

•

Printer on remote lpd server

•

Network printer (TCP/Socket)

•

Printer on SMB/Windows 95/98/NT server

•

A printer device URl

•  A versatile IPP client for UNIX/Linux is CUPS. It can be downloaded from the Common Unix 

Printing System’s Web site at www.cups.org

•  If you don't find your specific printer in your distribution, have a look at 

http://www.linuxprinting.org/database.html