Solaris 9, Suse, Notes – Philips AXIS 5900 User Manual

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Adding Printers in UNIX/Linux

AXIS 5900 User’s Manual

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Solaris 9

The printing tool is called Printer Administrator. This operating

environment has an integrated printer driver list, but does not have

printer detection functionality.

Instructions:

Type the command /usr/sadm/admin/bin/printmgr in a Terminal

window.

SuSE

YaST2 is the recommended printing tool. It contains a printer driver list

as well as printer detection capability.

Instructions:

To start the Printer Configuration tool, select this from the Desktop:

YaST2 menu button (on the panel) | In Yast Control Center | Hardware
| Edit Printers

Notes:

• A versatile IPP client for UNIX/Linux is CUPS. It can be downloaded from the Common Unix

Printing System’s Web site at www.cups.org

• If you don't find your specific printer in your distribution, have a look at

http://www.linuxprinting.org/database.html

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