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2. Adding a printer

Clicking the Add button will pop up a menu, where you have three choices:

2.1 Adding a Local printer

The New Printer dialog box has three sections:

General

The basic configuration details required to add a new printer to your Netwinder. The fields in this section of the dialog are:

Name is an arbitrary name that is used on your machine to identify the printer you're printing to.

Device is the name that identifies the port on your system where the printer is connected. You can connect a printer to either the parallel port (/dev/lp1) or the serial port (/dev/ttyS0).

If you check the box to the left of Limit printed files to under, you can enter a value (in Kbytes) in the size box at the right. Only files under the specified size will be printed.

Output

You can choose Printer type, Color depth, Resolution, Page size, Page format and Margins. You also have the option to Print header page.

Advanced

This dialog provides four options: Send EOF at end of print job, Fix stair-stepping text, Fast text printing , and the choice of Ghostscript options.

2.2 Adding a Unix printer

The New Printer dialog box has three sections:

General

Name is an arbitrary name that is used on your machine to identify the printer you're printing to.

Host name is the name of the Unix/Linux server that controls the printer you want to select.

Queue is the name of the printer queue that services the printer you want to select. A printer queue stores and manages the print jobs that are sent to a printer from multiple users.

If you check the box to the left of Limit printed files to under, you can enter a value (in Kbytes) in the size box at the right. Only files under the specified size will be printed.

Output

You can choose Printer type, Color depth, Resolution, Page size, Page format and Margins. You also have the option to Print header page.

Advanced

This dialog provides four options: Send EOF at end of print job, Fix stair-stepping text, Fast text printing , and the choice of Ghostscript options.

2.3 Adding a LAN printer (Windows printer)

The New Printer dialog box has three sections:

General

Name is an arbitrary name that is used on your machine to identify the printer you're printing to.

Host name is the name of the Windows NT server that controls the printer you want to select. In this example, ccc-nt-print is the host name.

Printer name is the name that identifies the printer on the host. In this example, 11xeroxmono is the printer name.

User name is the Windows NT user name that your Network Administrator gave you.

Password is the Windows NT password your Network Administrator gave you.

If you check the box to the left of Limit printed files to under, you can enter a value (in Kbytes) in the size box at the right. Only files under the specified size will be printed.

Output

You can choose Printer type, Color depth, Resolution, Page size, Page format and Margins. You also have the option to Print header page.

Advanced

This dialog provides four options: Send EOF at endof print job, Fix stair-stepping text, Fast text printing , and the choice of Ghostscript options.


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