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<chapter id="add-printer-wizard-2">
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<title>The <quote>Add Printer Wizard</quote> for &CUPS;</title>
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<para>Clicking on the left-most icon on the toolbar
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<inlinemediaobject><imageobject> <imagedata
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fileref="cr32-action-wizard.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject>
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</inlinemediaobject> in the upper part of the window starts the
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<quote>Add Printer Wizard</quote>.</para>
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<para>This wizard steps you through various screens to install a new
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printer. At present this Wizard works for &CUPS; and the
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<acronym>RLPR</acronym> environment module. The number of steps depend
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on the actual print-subsystem which is active and available to you on
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your box.</para>
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<sect1>
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<title>Starting</title>
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<para>The welcome screen informs you that you can go back any time to
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change a setting. </para>
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<screenshot>
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<screeninfo>The &tdeprint; wizard introduction screen</screeninfo>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="cupsaddprinterwizard1.png"
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format="PNG"/></imageobject>
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<textobject>
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<phrase>The introduction screen of the printer wizard</phrase></textobject>
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</mediaobject>
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</screenshot>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="backend-selection">
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<title>Backend Selection</title>
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<para>Choose the <quote>backend</quote> protocol that &CUPS; is supposed to
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use with your new printer. There are:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>local printer (serial, parallel, <acronym>USB</acronym>)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>remote <acronym>LPD</acronym> queue</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><acronym>SMB</acronym> shared printer (&Windows;)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Network Printer (<acronym>TCP</acronym>, &HP; JetDirect,
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AppSocket)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Network printer with &IPP; (&IPP;/<acronym>HTTP</acronym>)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>File printer</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>serial fax /modem printer</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Class of Printers</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>If some choices are grayed out, they are not available. For
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example, you may have no FAX backend software or no modem installed to
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use it.</para>
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<screenshot>
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<screeninfo>Choosing your Printer system</screeninfo>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="cupsaddprinterwizard2_backendselection.png"
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format="PNG"/></imageobject>
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<textobject>
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<phrase>Choosing your Printer System</phrase></textobject>
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</mediaobject>
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</screenshot>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="direct-network-settings">
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<title>Direct Network Setting</title>
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<para>The contents of your next screen is dependent on your choice in
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the previous screen. If you know the details, just type them in to
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configure your network settings directly.</para>
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<para>In other cases the wizard can scan the network for you, to help you
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decide which setting could be useful. </para>
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<screenshot>
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<screeninfo>&tdeprint; wizard network scan</screeninfo>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="cupsaddprinterwizard3_networkscan.png"
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format="PNG"/></imageobject>
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<textobject>
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<phrase>In the &tdeprint; wizard, you can enter network details
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directly, or you can scan the network
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automatically.</phrase></textobject>
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</mediaobject>
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</screenshot>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="information-retrieval-by-network-scanning">
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<title>Information Retrieval by Scanning the Network</title>
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<para>If you use one of the network connections (remote
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<acronym>LPD</acronym>, <acronym>SMB</acronym>, remote &CUPS;, network
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printer with &IPP;), you have an option for scanning the network. Be careful
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when applying this; in some environments network scanning is considered
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to be hostile and harmful!</para>
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<para>In the case of <acronym>SMB</acronym>, &tdeprint; will use the
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Samba utilities <command>nmblookup</command> and
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<command>smbclient</command> (which need to be installed for this to
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work) to retrieve the information it presents in a tree
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structure.</para>
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<para>In the case of &IPP; (Port 631) and <acronym>TCP</acronym>
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Network/AppSocket (Port 9100) &tdeprint; will try to open the port and,
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if successful, send an <command>ipp-get-printer-attribute</command>
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request to the printer. For newer &HP; printers the latter usually
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works, because they support both AppSocket and &IPP;.</para>
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<para>Some printers or manufacturers use other port numbers for direct
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TCP/IP printing. You may need to look up which one to use. The
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<guilabel>Settings</guilabel> button in the dialog lets you configure
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your scan, including <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses, ports and
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timeout to use.</para>
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<para>Once again: be careful not to be mistaken for an intruder on
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your network, if you use the scanning technique.</para>
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<screenshot>
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<screeninfo>&tdeprint; wizard network configuration dialog</screeninfo>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="cupsaddprinterwizard4_networkscan_config.png"
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format="PNG"/></imageobject>
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<textobject>
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<phrase>In the &tdeprint; wizard, you can enter parameters to have the
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wizard scan parts of your network.</phrase></textobject>
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</mediaobject>
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</screenshot>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="printer-model-selection">
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<title>Printer Model Selection</title>
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<para>The hardest part is probably the <quote>Printer Model
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Selection</quote>. In former years the situation was difficult, because
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there were hardly any drivers to find. The difficulty now is there are too
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many; though some of them are very good, many are quite broken. </para>
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<para>If you have a current <quote>database</quote> of available drivers
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on your system, select the manufacturer in the left part of the window
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first, then the device model in the right part. This split window shows
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all &PPD;s found by &CUPS; in its standard repository of installable
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&PPD;s. This repository normally is <filename
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class="directory">/usr/share/cups/model/</filename>. If you want your
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driver to be found automatically by &CUPS; and &tdeprint;, place it in
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there.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="driver-selection">
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<title>Driver Selection</title>
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<para>On the next screen you will see a description of the driver
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selected previously. This description is extracted from the actual &PPD;
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used.</para>
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<warning>
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<para>For a real &PostScript; printer <emphasis>never</emphasis> try to
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install a <quote>Foomatic</quote> or <quote>Gimp-Print</quote> &PPD;,
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even if it is offered. You won't be happy with it. Instead find the
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original &PPD; from the manufacturer, preferably the one written for
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&Windows; NT and use it. </para>
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</warning>
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<para>Some &Linux; distributions have supplied for &CUPS; every
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possible combination of <application>Ghostscript</application> filters
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and <quote>foomatic</quote> &PPD; files they could find on the net.
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Many of these are quite useless; they were generated a year ago, when
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the people at <ulink
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url="http://www.linuxprinting.org">www.linuxprinting.org</ulink> began
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their first experiments with supplying third party &PPD;s for
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&CUPS;. Although dubbed <quote>Alpha</quote> at the time, these
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started to take on a life of their own and can now be found at various
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places on the net, doing &CUPS; no favors.</para>
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<para>If you are not sure which ones to use go to:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><ulink
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url="http://www.linuxprinting.org">http://www.linuxprinting.org</ulink>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<ulink url="http://www.cups.org">http://www.cups.org</ulink>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>And ask for help. At a later stage, a document detailing the
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differences between the different driver and &PPD; models will appear at
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<ulink
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url="http://tdeprint.sourceforge.net">http://tdeprint.sourceforge.net/</ulink>
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Watch out for this!</para>
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<para>Via the <guibutton>Other...</guibutton> button you are able to
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retrieve any &PPD; located somewhere on your available file
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system.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="printer-test-and-finding-settings">
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<title>Printer Test and Finding the Right Settings</title>
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<para>Specify your first driver settings now. The most important one is the
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default paper size. In many cases this is set to
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<quote>Letter</quote>. If you live in an <quote>A4</quote>
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country and don't want your first test page to jam: now is the time to
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prevent this. </para>
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<para>You are ready to start a test print. Hit the
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<guibutton>Test</guibutton> button.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="banner-selection">
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<title>Banner Selection</title>
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<para>The last but one screen lets you select whether you want banners, and
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which ones you want to use, to mark the beginning and/or end of every printjob
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on that printer. You can also select and deselect banners before printing
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in the job options dialogs.</para>
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<para>If you need to use custom banners, copy them into <filename
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class="directory">/usr/share/cups/banners/</filename> to make them
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available for selection. They must be &PostScript; files,
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however.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="baptizing-your-printer">
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<title>Finally: Baptizing Your New Printer</title>
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<para>The last screen lets you insert a name for your new
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printer.</para>
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<para>The name must start with a letter and may contain numbers and
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underscores with a maximum size of 128 characters. Conform to this if you
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want to avoid erratic behavior of your &CUPS; daemon. The printer
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names in &CUPS; are <emphasis>not</emphasis> case sensitive! This is a
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requirement of &IPP;. So the names <systemitem
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class="resource">DANKA_infotec</systemitem>, <systemitem
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class="resource">Danka_Infotec</systemitem> and <systemitem
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class="resource">danka_infotec</systemitem> all represent the same
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printer.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="final-confirmation-screen">
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<title>The Final Confirmation Screen</title>
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<para>
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</para>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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