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 pape r 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 yo u to set image options that are used
when printing images/files, such as color options, image
size, or image position.
•
Device
: allows you to set the print resol u tion, pap er
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 p ag e 31.
3
Click
OK
to start printing.