Samsung CLP-350 Printing a Document

Using Your Printer in Linux
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Printing a Document
Printing from Applications
There are a lot of Linux applications that you are allowed to
print from using Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). You
can print on your machine from an y such application.
1 From the application you are using, select Print from the
File menu.
2 Select Print directly using lpr .
3 In the LPR GUI window, select the model name of your
machine from the Printer list and click
Properties .
4 Change the printer and print job properties.
Click.
The following four tabs display at the top of the w indow.
•
General - allows you to change the pa per size, the paper
type, and the orientation of the documents, enables the
duplex feature, adds start and end ba nners, and changes
the number of pages pe r sheet.
•
Text - allows you to spe cify the page margins and set the
text options, such as spacing or columns.
•
Graphics - allows you to set imag e options that are used
when printing images/files, such as color options, image
size, or image position.
•
Device : allows you to set the print resolution, paper
source, and destination.
5 Click Apply to apply the changes and close the Properties
window.
6 Click OK in the LPR GUI wind ow to start printing .
7 The Printing window appears, allowing you to m o nitor the
status of your print job.
To abort the current job, click
Cancel .
Printing Files
You can print many different types of files on the Samsung
machine device using the standard CUPS way - directly from
the command line inter face. The CUPS lpr utility allo ws yo u do
that. But the drivers package replaces the standard lpr tool by
a much more user-friendly LPR GUI program.
To print any document file:
1 Type lpr <file_name> from the Linux shell command
line and press
Enter . The LPR GUI wind ow appears.
When you type only
lpr and press Enter , the Select
file(s) to print window appears first. Just select any files
you want to print and click Open .
2 In the LPR GUI wind ow, select your printer from the list,
and change the printe r and print job properties.
For d etails about the properties window, see page 31.
3 Click OK to start printing.