SolutionBase: Performing common administrative tasks on a Fedora Core 5 workstation
Give your new print queue a name and description
Connecting to network printers
Printers are the bane of most support professionals, and also one of the most used resources on the network. You'd probably expect to be able to print from your new Fedora Core system and, in this section, you will learn to do just that.
I'm not going to go over printing when a printer is connected directly to a Fedora system but will instead go over two corporate printing scenarios (both in this, and in the next article in this series):
Printing directly to a network printer works well for standard equipment, such as JetDirect cards that use TCP/IP. If you use some not-well-supported means to get a printer on your network, you may have trouble printing from your Linux machine. In that case, you can connect the printer to a Windows workstation and read the next article in which I talk about Fedora and Windows integration.
In the "Printer configuration -- servername" window, click the New button to create a new printer. This starts a short wizard that walks you through the process of creating a new print queue to which you will be able to directly send documents.
On the first screen, the "Add a new print queue" wizard asks you to create a queue name and to provide a description for this queue. The queue name has to start with a letter and cannot contain spaces. I've named by queue "LJ4000N" since that is the model printer I have in my lab. Click the Forward button to continue.
Printers are the bane of most support professionals, and also one of the most used resources on the network. You'd probably expect to be able to print from your new Fedora Core system and, in this section, you will learn to do just that.
I'm not going to go over printing when a printer is connected directly to a Fedora system but will instead go over two corporate printing scenarios (both in this, and in the next article in this series):
- (This article) Printing directly to an HP LaserJet 4000N over the network. In this case, the LaserJet has a JetDirect card and an IP address.
- (Next article) Printing to the same model printer, but this time, the printer is connected to a Windows file and print server.
Printing directly to a network printer works well for standard equipment, such as JetDirect cards that use TCP/IP. If you use some not-well-supported means to get a printer on your network, you may have trouble printing from your Linux machine. In that case, you can connect the printer to a Windows workstation and read the next article in which I talk about Fedora and Windows integration.
In the "Printer configuration -- servername" window, click the New button to create a new printer. This starts a short wizard that walks you through the process of creating a new print queue to which you will be able to directly send documents.
On the first screen, the "Add a new print queue" wizard asks you to create a queue name and to provide a description for this queue. The queue name has to start with a letter and cannot contain spaces. I've named by queue "LJ4000N" since that is the model printer I have in my lab. Click the Forward button to continue.
