Philips 5900 Manuale Utente

AXIS 5900 User’s Manual

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Debian offers a choice between plain LPD, LPRng and CUPS. There are 

several printer configuration tools in this distribution, e.g. the apsfilter 

(version 5 or later), which adds support for LPRng and Ghostscript's 

uniprint driver scheme. Red Hat's printtool is also supported, for those 

who prefer GUI administration tools.

For LPRng, LPD and CUPS use the Printtool.

Invocation

1. From the Gnome desktop, select Main Menu (on the panel) => Debian 

menus => Apps => System => Printtool.

2. On the KDE desktop, select the Main Menu (on the Panel) => System => 

Debian => Printtool.

3. Open a terminal window and type the command 

printtool

 (in XTERM or 

Gnome).

Print Queues

Five types of print queues can be configured with printconf in the Debian 

distribution: 

• Local Printer
• Unix Printer (lpd Spool
• Windows Printer (SMB) 
• Novell Printer (NCP Queue)
• JetDirect  Printer

Adding a Remote Unix

Printer

1. Start 

printtool and click 

Add.

2. Select 

Remote Unix (lpd) Queue from the Printer Type menu, and click OK. 

Text fields for the following options appears:

•

Printer name — Enter a unique name for the printer. (The name 

cannot contain spaces and must begin with a letter. Valid characters 
are a - z, A - Z, 0 - 9, -, and _. 

•

Remote Host — The hostname or IP address of the remote machine 

to which the printer is attached. 

•

Remote Queue and input filter — The remote printer queue and 

input filter. 

3. Click 

Next to continue. Click Select to choose a printer driver and to set it up.

4. Click 

OK. Finally, click Test and print a test page.