Philips 5900 Manuale Utente

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AXIS 5900 User’s Manual

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. 

1. Click 

Hardware | Printer and the Printerdrake application will be invoked.

2. Click 

Expert Mode to be able to add a network printer.

3. 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

4. Select the 

Network printer radio button and click Next.

5. Enter the IP address or host name of the print server as well as the port you 

want to use. Port numbers available for TCP/IP are:

6. Click 

Next.

7. Fill in data to help users identify the printer, i.e. name, description and 

location. Click 

Next.

8. Select printer model and click 

Next.

9. Configure the printer and click 

Next. The printer is set up. Click Finish and 

the printer is accessible.

Still using Mandrake as an example, open a Terminal Window and type 

the command 

printtool

. If you are in a terminal window, the graphic 

version will start (as described above). If you do not have the X Window 

System installed, the command will start a text based version. The same 

information as was described above will be needed.

In Mandrake, even if you type 

printtool

 at a shell prompt, 

printerdrake

 will 

automatically start.

Port number

LPT1

LPT2

AXIS 5900

9900

9902