[deployment-guide/comm-rel-15] Minor changes in the Printer Configuration chapter, corrected typos, updated screenshots, etc.
Jaromir Hradilek
jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Mon Aug 29 11:18:50 UTC 2011
commit bb6be44a7612ba2a338fdddfd99844ffd8cf0d96
Author: Eliska Slobodova <eslobodo at redhat.com>
Date: Sun Aug 28 13:37:21 2011 +0200
Minor changes in the Printer Configuration chapter, corrected typos, updated screenshots, etc.
en-US/Printer_Configuration.xml | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Printer_Configuration.xml b/en-US/Printer_Configuration.xml
index 8125ab3..0957186 100644
--- a/en-US/Printer_Configuration.xml
+++ b/en-US/Printer_Configuration.xml
@@ -3,14 +3,26 @@
]>
<section id="sec-Printer_Configuration">
<title>Printer Configuration</title>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>CUPS</primary>
+ <see>Printer Configuration</see>
+ </indexterm>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>printers</primary>
+ <see>Printer Configuration</see>
+ </indexterm>
<para>
- The <application>Printer Configuration</application> tool serves for printer configuring, maintenance of printer configuration files, print spool directories and print filters, and printer classes management.
+ The <application>Printer Configuration</application> tool serves for printer configuring, maintenance of printer configuration files, print spool directories and print filters, and printer classes management.
</para>
<para>
The tool is based on the Common Unix Printing System (<acronym>CUPS</acronym>). If you upgraded the system from a previous &MAJOROS; version that used CUPS, the upgrade process preserved the configured printers.
</para>
<note>
<title>Using the CUPS web application or command line tools</title>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Printer Configuration</primary>
+ <secondary>CUPS</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
<para>
You can perform the same and additional operations on printers directly from the CUPS web application or command line. To access the application, in a web browser, go to <ulink url="http://localhost:631/">http://localhost:631/</ulink>. For CUPS manuals refer to the links on the <guilabel>Home</guilabel> tab of the web site.
</para>
@@ -18,7 +30,7 @@
<section id="sec-Starting_Printer_Config">
<title>Starting the Printer Configuration Tool</title>
<para>
- With the Printer Configuration tool you can perform various operations on existing printers and set up new printers. However, you can use also CUPS directly (go to <ulink url="http://localhost:631/">http://localhost:631/</ulink> to access CUPS).
+ With the Printer Configuration tool you can perform various operations on existing printers and set up new printers.
</para>
<para>
On the upper panel, go to <guimenu>Activities</guimenu>, choose <guisubmenu>Applications</guisubmenu> and click <guimenuitem>Printing</guimenuitem>. Alternatively, run the <command>system-config-printer</command> command from the command line to start the tool.
@@ -69,18 +81,17 @@
</step>
<step>
<para>
- Select the printer connection type and provide its details in the area on the right (refer to <xref linkend="sec-Defining_Printer_Queue" />).
+ Select the printer connection type and provide its details in the area on the right.
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
- <section id="sec-Defining_Printer_Queue">
- <title>Adding Printer</title>
- <para>
- When setting up printers, you need to select the printer connection type and define its parameters (parameters depend on the printer type).
- </para>
<section id="sec-Adding_Other_Printer">
<title>Adding a Local Printer</title>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Printer Configuration</primary>
+ <secondary>Local Printers</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
<para>
Follow this procedure to add a local printer connected with other than a serial port:
</para>
@@ -218,6 +229,10 @@
</section>
<section id="s1-printing-ipp-printer">
<title>Adding an IPP Printer</title>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Printer Configuration</primary>
+ <secondary>IPP Printers</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
<para>
An IPP printer is a printer attached to a different system on the same TCP/IP network. The system this printer is attached to may either be running CUPS or simply configured to use IPP.
</para>
@@ -255,7 +270,7 @@
<term><guilabel>Queue</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- queue name to be given to the new queue (if the box is left empty, a name based on the device node will be used)
+ The queue name to be given to the new queue (if the box is left empty, a name based on the device node will be used)
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -291,6 +306,10 @@
</section>
<section id="sec-printing-LPDLPR-printer">
<title>Adding an LPD/LPR Host or Printer</title>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Printer Configuration</primary>
+ <secondary>LDP/LPR Printers</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
<procedure id="proc-Adding_HTTPS_Printer">
<para>
Follow this procedure to add an LPD/LPR host or printer:
@@ -325,7 +344,7 @@
<term><guilabel>Queue</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- queue name to be given to the new queue (if the box is left empty, a name based on the device node will be used)
+ The queue name to be given to the new queue (if the box is left empty, a name based on the device node will be used)
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -357,7 +376,15 @@
</procedure>
</section>
<section id="s1-printing-smb-printer">
- <title>Adding a Samba (SMB) printer</title>
+ <title>Adding a Samba (SMB) printer</title>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Printer Configuration</primary>
+ <secondary>Samba Printers</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Samba</primary>
+ <secondary>Samba Printers</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
<procedure id="proc-Adding_SMB_Printer">
<para>
Follow this procedure to add a Samba printer:
@@ -367,7 +394,7 @@
<para>
Note that in order to add a Samba printer, you need to have the <package>samba-client</package> package installed. You can do so by running, as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:
</para>
- <screen><command>yum isntall samba-client</command></screen>
+ <screen><command>yum install samba-client</command></screen>
<para>
For more information on installing packages with Yum, refer to <xref linkend="sec-Installing" />.
</para>
@@ -456,11 +483,10 @@
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
- </section>
<section id="s1-printing-select-model">
<title>Selecting the Printer Model and Finishing</title>
<para>
- Once you have properly selected a printer connection type, the systems attempts to acquire a driver. If the process fails, you can locate or search for the driver resources manually.
+ Once you have properly selected a printer connection type, the system attempts to acquire a driver. If the process fails, you can locate or search for the driver resources manually.
</para>
<procedure id="proc-Selecting_Driver">
<para>
@@ -620,6 +646,10 @@
</para>
<section>
<title>The Settings Page</title>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Printer Configuration</primary>
+ <secondary>Settings</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
<para>
To change printer driver configuration, double-click the corresponding name in the <guilabel>Printer</guilabel> list and click the <guilabel>Settings</guilabel> label on the left to display the <guilabel>Settings</guilabel> page.
</para>
@@ -651,12 +681,16 @@
You can also create a <firstterm>banner page</firstterm> (a page that describes aspects of the print job such as the originating printer, the username from the which the job originated, and the security status of the document being printed): click the <guilabel>Starting Banner </guilabel> or <guilabel>Ending Banner</guilabel> drop-menu and choose the option that best describes the nature of the print jobs (such as <guilabel>topsecret</guilabel>, <guilabel>classified</guilabel>, or <guilabel>confidential</guilabel>).
</para>
<section id="sec-Sharing_Printers">
- <title>Sharing Printers</title>
+ <title>Sharing Printers</title>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Printer Configuration</primary>
+ <secondary>Sharing Printers</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
<para>
On the <guilabel>Policies</guilabel> page, you can mark a printer as shared: if a printer is shared, users published on the network can use it. To allow the sharing function for printers, go to <menuchoice><guimenu>Server</guimenu><guimenuitem>Settings</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and select <guilabel>Publish shared printers connected to this system</guilabel>.
</para>
<para>
- Finally, make sure that the firewall allows incoming TCP connections to port 631 (that is Network Printing Server (IPP) in system-config-firewall).
+ Finally, ensure that the firewall allows incoming TCP connections to port 631, which is Network Printing Server (IPP) in system-config-firewall.
</para>
<figure id="fig-printconf-config2">
<title>Policies page</title>
@@ -751,6 +785,10 @@
</section>
<section id="s1-printing-managing">
<title>Managing Print Jobs</title>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Printer Configuration</primary>
+ <secondary>Print Jobs</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
<para>
When you send a print job to the printer daemon, such as printing a text file from <application>Emacs</application> or printing an image from <application>GIMP</application>, the print job is added to the print spool queue. The print spool queue is a list of print jobs that have been sent to the printer and information about each print request, such as the status of the request, the job number, and more.
</para>
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