Issues or Topics covered here are based on Red Hat Standards from version 7.x and on wards, uses GNOME.

  Printer Installation is part of the initial system installation on some Linux distributions.   Wait until the system is running before configuring the printer.   To launch the printconf tool on a Red Hot system, enter printconf -tui for a text version of the tool or printconf -gui for an X Window System version.

  you can list all the existing printers attached to your local terminal by enter the code below at the Terminal window and as follows:

   ls -l /dev/lp*

  Once the Port and Driver or model had been selected from a valid list of choices, your now ready to Edit the Printer Queue and it contains four(4) tabs and as follows:

   Note:

  You can try to use the Generic driver type If any problem does come in your way and try to test print the combination just in case.   with Mandrake packages, it is best to try the Generic driver first than those supplied by the vendor.

Name and Aliases the Queue name that was entered when the printer was installed Queue Type holds a drop-down box from which any of the five(5) queue types can be selected.   These are as follows: Local Priner, Unix Printer, Windows Printer (smb), Novell Printers and JetDirect Printers Driver available driver for the selected printer and normally, the system will detect the best driver for the said printer.   You can download other driver from www.linuxprinting.org also Driver options 

Server requires a host name of the printer server;   the name must be written in a form that your system can resolve to an IP address

ex.:

   vins.vinsky2002.net Queue this box requires the name of the remote printer as it is defined on the remote server itself.   The Queue name value defined on the Name and Aliases tab is your local name for the printer;  the Queue value defined on the Queue Type tab is the remote server's name for the printer itself.