Philips 5900 Manuale Utente

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AXIS 5900 User’s Manual

For printer configuration, printtool and printconfig are the most common. 

How they are invoked depends on which distribution and window 

manager you use.

SMIT is the recommended printing tool. It contains an integrated printer 

driver list, but does not have printer detection functionality.

Instructions:

Type the command smit in a Terminal window, then click Print 

Spooling.

printtool is the recommended printing tool. The program contains an 

integrated printer driver list, but does not have printer detection 

functionality.

Instructions:

Type the command printtool in a Terminal window to start the 

graphical version.

Sam is the recommended printing tool. It doesn’t provide an integrated 

printer driver list, nor printer detection functionality. 

Instructions: 

Type the command sam in a Terminal window, click Printers and 

Plotters and then click Actions and Add_Remote Printer/Plotter.

printerdrake is the recommended printing tool. It contains an integrated 

printer driver list, but does not have printer detection ability.

printconf is the recommended printing tool. The program contains an 

integrated printer driver list, but does not have printer detection 

functionality.

Instructions:

Type the command printconf-gui in a Terminal window to start the 

graphical version. 

You can also run printconf as a text-based application if you do not have 

the X Window System installed, or if you prefer the text-based interface. 

Log in as root (or use the command su to temporarily change to the root 

user), and type the command /usr/sbin/printconf-tui from a 

shell prompt.