Configuring printer properties, Printing a document, Printing from applications – Samsung SCX-6555N-XBG User Manual

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Using Your Printer in Linux

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Configuring Printer Properties

Using the properties window provided by the Printers
configuration, you can change the various properties for your
machine as a printer.

1

Open the Unified Driver Configurator.
If necessary, switch to Printers configuration.

2

Select your machine on the available printers list and click
Properties.

3

The Printer Properties window opens.

The following five tabs display at the top of the window:

General: allows you to change the printer location and
name. The name entered in this tab displays on the
printer list in Printers configuration.

Connection: allows you to view or select another port. If
you change the printer port from USB to parallel or vice
versa while in use, you must re-configure the printer port
in this tab.

Driver: allows you to view or select another printer
driver. By clicking

Options, you can set the default

device options.

Jobs: shows the list of print jobs. Click Cancel job to
cancel the selected job and select the

Show completed

jobs check box to see previous jobs on the job list.

Classes: shows the class that your printer is in. Click
Add to Class to add your printer to a specific class or
click

Remove from Class to remove the printer from the

selected class.

4

Click

OK to apply the changes and close the Printer

Properties Window.

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 any 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.

The following four tabs display at the top of the window.

General - allows you to change the paper size, the paper
type, and the orientation of the documents, enables the
duplex feature, adds start and end banners, and changes
the number of pages per sheet.

Click.

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