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<chapter id="getting-started">
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<title>Getting Started</title>
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<para>This chapter of the &tdeprint; Handbook will walk you through most of the configuration or selection options of &tdeprint;. It will mainly deal with &CUPS; in this version, as the author is most familiar with it, and also because &tdeprint; started off with supporting &CUPS; best. Later versions of the &tdeprint; software and editions of this handbook will support and explore other printing systems more closely.</para>
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<sect1 id="selecting-your-print-subsystem">
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<title>Selecting Your Print Subsystem</title>
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<para>You need to define your print subsystem, before you are able to install any printer with the &tdeprint; framework. There are two areas where you can define this: either in &kcontrol; (The <guilabel>Printing Manager</guilabel> section), or directly and <quote>on the fly</quote> from the print dialogue.</para>
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<para>Navigate to <menuchoice><guimenu>TDE Menu</guimenu> <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu> <guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu> <guimenuitem>Printing Manager</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. At the bottom you can see a button that lets you select which printing subsystem you want to use. In &kde; 2.2 you can choose from the following alternatives:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>&CUPS; (Common &UNIX; Printing System)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Print through an external program (generic)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><acronym>LPR</acronym> (Standard <acronym>BSD</acronym> Print System)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Generic &UNIX; <acronym>LPD</acronym> print system (the default)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><acronym>RLPR</acronym> environment (print to remote <acronym>LPD</acronym> servers from the command line)</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Of course, the chosen system must be installed, and up and running on your box prior to your selection, or before it takes effect. </para>
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<para>On it's first startup, &tdeprint; will try an autodetection. This only works for:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>&CUPS;, as it is checking first for a running &CUPS; daemon</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><acronym>LPD</acronym>, as it is checking for a running <acronym>LPD</acronym> daemon, plus a <filename>printcap</filename> file.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<!-- <para>
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Go to System->XY->ABC. Now you can choose from the following
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alternatives:
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</para>-->
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<para>The system you choose must be installed on your system prior to your selection. The author's personal recommendation is &CUPS;.</para>
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<para>Once autodetected, chosen, or changed, the active print subsystem will take effect for all &kde; applications. Different users may have different print subsystems in use, if those do exist on the computer and are compliant with each other. Their settings are stored in the <filename>tdeprintrc</filename>. This file is unique to every user, and is normally installed in <filename>$<envar>HOME</envar>/.trinity/share/config/tdeprintrc</filename>.</para>
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<warning>
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<para>This file is not intended to be directly editable, and all available options can be set from the &tdeprint; &GUI;.</para>
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</warning>
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<para>You may even select a different printer subsystem, on the fly, from the &kprinter; dialogue box.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="working-with-printing-manger">
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<title>Working with the Printing Manager</title>
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<para>Once you have chosen your preferred and installed print subsystem, you are ready to investigate, configure administer and work with this system through the &tdeprint; framework.</para>
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<para>Navigate to <menuchoice><guimenu>TDE Menu</guimenu> <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu> <guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu> <guimenuitem>Printing Manager</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. In the right part of the window you will see at least 4 printers predefined. These are the virtual or special purpose printers, explained in section . You will probably see a toolbar with 13 icons at the top of the window, and at least 4 tabs in the lower half of the window, labelled <guilabel>Information</guilabel>, <guilabel>Jobs</guilabel>, <guilabel>Properties</guilabel> and <guilabel>Instances</guilabel>.</para>
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<!-- Not needed: the default view is as described, this can be mentioned -->
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<!-- elsewhere <para>If you start the <guilabel>Printing -->
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<!-- Manager</guilabel> module for the first time, you may be missing -->
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<!-- Icons or tabs. <mousebutton>Right</mousebutton>-clicking the mouse -->
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<!-- on the white background of the right part of the window opens a -->
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<!-- Menu to select your viewing preferences. To get the same view as in -->
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<!-- most screenshots, select: <guimenuitem>View Toolbar</guimenuitem> -->
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<!-- and <guimenuitem>View Printer Information</guimenuitem> and -->
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<!-- <guimenuitem>View Icons</guimenuitem> and <guimenuitem>Orientation -->
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<!-- Vertical</guimenuitem>. Moving the mouse over one Button and -->
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<!-- waiting a second gives you a tooltip hint about its functions. -->
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3.3 Selection: &CUPS; or other?
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If your selection of the print system is &CUPS;, you will have more
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choices at your fingertips than with any other printing
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system. &CUPS; is new to most Linux users (even the senior
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hackers amongst us), and it is quite easy to use. But it
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is at the same time very different from other printing systems.
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Therfor the &CUPS; part in the &tdeprint; Handbook is naturally
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the most detailed.
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Future editions of the &tdeprint; handbook will describe in
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more detail the other systems.
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-->
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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