Learning about the printer drivers

Using the printer drivers with UNIX and Linux

Installing the printer drivers

Before installing the printer drivers

Supported operating systems

System requirements

Installing on HP-UX

Installing on IBM AIX

Installing on Red Hat, Red Flag, Linpus, or SUSE Linux

Installing on Sun Solaris SPARC

Installing on Sun Solaris x86

Installing on Linspire or Debian GNU/Linux

Removing the printer drivers package

Removing remaining directories

Performing tasks

Opening the printer driver

Print Drivers Setup

Changing an administrative group name

Adding or removing a user from the administrative group

Creating virtual devices

Creating a print queue

Changing the print queue status

Changing the print queue properties

Working with printer aliases

Working with printer classes

Managing printer groups

Printing from the command line

Printing a file

Printing a test page

Printing a duplex job

Printing multiple pages on one sheet

Printing multiple copies of a document

Changing the orientation of a print job

Changing the Lines Per Page setting

Defining the printable area when printing text files

Using the Print and Hold setting

Creating custom banner pages

Finding space to install the printer drivers package

Changing a virtual device

Removing a virtual device

Changing a print queue to print to a different printer

Removing a print queue

Plugin Manager utility (software updates)

Frequently asked questions

Command line

Print queue management

Normal user or administrator

Default settings for the program or queue

Related topics

Troubleshooting

The print queue is empty but my document did not print

Jobs appear in the print queue for an extended time

The print queue does not receive print jobs

The print queue is disabled or down

The file I sent to the print queue came out as garbage

The hostname does not resolve

The printer driver is unable to find the network printer

My printer model is not listed

Jobs are not printing

Additional problems

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