Philips 5900 Manuale Utente

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AXIS 5900 User’s Manual

The printing system on SuSE Linux is based on an apsfilter, with some 

enhancements; SuSE's apsfilter will recognize all common file formats 

(including HTML, if html2ps is installed). 

There are two ways to setup printers on SuSE systems: 

•

YaST2 will let you configure "PostScript", "DeskJet" and "Other 
printers", supported by Ghostscript drivers; it's also possible to setup 
HP's GDI printers (DeskJet 710/720, 820, 1000, via the "ppa" package). 
YaST2 will provide /etc/printcap entries for every printer ("raw", "ascii", 
"auto" and "color", if the printer to configure is a color printer). YaST2 
will create spool directories and it will arrange apsfilterrc files, where 
you're able to fine tune some settings (Ghostscript preloads, paper size, 
paper orientation, resolution, printer escape sequences, etc.). With 
YaST2 it's also possible to setup network printers (TCP/IP, Samba, or 
Novell NetWare Printer). 

•

SuSE includes the regular SETUP program from the original apsfilter 
package (with some enhancements); run 

lprsetup

 to invoke this 

configuration script. Once you get accustomed to its GUI, you'll be able 
to configure local and network printers. 

Invocation of YaST2

On the Gnome desktop select YaST2 Menu Button (on the panel) => 

Yast Control Center => Hardware => Edit Printers to start the Printer 

Configuration tool. On the KDE desktop select YaST Menu Button (on the 

panel) => Yast2 modules => Hardware => Edit printers to start the 

graphic version.

Print Queues

SuSE and YaST2 differ between these printer connections:

• Local printers (Parallel, Serial and Disk File)
• LPD protocol network printing (Forward queue to a remote LPD and 

Prefiltered queue for an LPD forwarding queue)

• Other network printing (Samba/Windows, Novell)

The SuSE installation manual explains the setup procedures in detail.