System-config-printer
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System-config-printer is a powerful tool who allows you to configure printersconnected directly to your system or linked to a network with and through other systems. This tool is available in the Hardware section of the Mandriva Control Center, but needs to be installed manually in the Mandriva One edition.
This tool is also used and maintained by the Fedora project. It replaces Printerdrake since Mandriva 2009.0.
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Adding a printer
You may will be asked to install additional software when you run the tool for the first time, please accept these package installations.
Adding a local printer
1. Connect the printer to your system.
2. Choose Server + New → Printer from the menu or use the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+N. If the printer was detected automatically, it's offered as the 1st option in the Select Device list (see the picture below), otherwise you can select the port and driver manually: make sure you have all needed data at hand.
3. Select the printer driver. If the printer was autodetected (as is the case with USB printers), just accept the suggested settings and click Forward. You can also provide your own PPD file or search for a suitable driver on the Internet. If there is more than one driver available for your printer, you are asked to choose which one to use: it is advisable that you keep the recommended one.
4. Provide descriptions for the printer. These serve to better identify printers if you happen to have more than one configured (see the picture below). Fill the Printer Name, Description, and Location fields as you see fit.
5. Click on Apply, the printer is then listed and marked as ready and available.
Adding a remote printer
1. Ask your system or network administrator for the model and name of the printer and the protocol it uses. Make sure the printer is switched on. 2. Use the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+N or choose Server + New → Printer from the menu and choose the communications protocol in the Select Device list using the information provided by your system or network administrator. The example shows a printer served by a Windows system.
3. The rest of the steps are the same as described for the Local Printer configuration: choose the driver, fill in the descriptions, and click Apply to make the remote printer available to print on your system.
Changing printer configuration
Double click on a printer to access its properties. Open the section you are interested in, make your selections and click Apply to make your settings effective immediately.
General Settings
Here you can also change the printer descriptions and driver. It also provides buttons to print test pages and clean print heads (if applicable).
Policies
Allows you to change whether the printer is enabled, if it's accepting jobs, if it's shareable, what to do when printing errors occur, etc.
Access Control
By default, all users can print on the system printers, if you want to limit the users that can or cannot print on your system, fill the field and click the Add button to add user names to the Users list and then choose the following:
- Allow printing for everyone except these users to deny printing to the listed users
- Deny printing for everyone except these users to allow printing only to the listed users.
The example shows that only users peter and queen can print.
Printer Options
Allows you to change the default paper size, printout mode and quality settings.
Job Options
Allows you to change various print job parameters, such as the number of copies, scaling, orientation, etc.
