Installation Instructions

Please refer to installation steps.rtf file for detailed installation information.

Salient facts about the CUPS Printing System

1. The browser based CUPS interface and the cupsconfig utility are both administrator utilities and cannot be used with normal user privileges.

2. After printer installation by the administrator, the user can use the CUPS system for normal printing. Please visit the following link to get more detailed information about how to use printing system commands: http://www.cups.org/sum.html#USING_SYSTEM

3. If the lp or lpr command does not work, replace it with lp.cups or lpr.cups respectively.

4. The CUPS system can also be used with a GUI interface such as KDEPRINT.

5. To use KDEPRINT, you need to have the KDE package installed. Try typing in “kprinter” at the command prompt. If it says command not found, you need to install the KDE package from the Linux disc. This will bring up the kdeprint print window. Select the CUPS spooler from the drop down menu on the bottom right of the window. You can change the PPD options by clicking on the properties tab and then selecting driver settings.

Installation Components

Printer devices are supported on all distributions of Linux having CUPS 1.2 or higher environment.

Installation Components

Printer devices are supported on all distributions of Linux having CUPS 1.2 or higher environment.

Known Issues/limitations:

-OpenOffice and LibreOffice doesn’t work properly with the GDI filter, the application bypasses the filter, it is possible to print but advanced features do not work. AbiWord does work properly with the GDI driver.

- Adobe Acrobat Reader: When printing odd number pages with duplex on, the last page will still go through duplexer, while in other applications the last page will be print out in simplex way.

- Duplexing mixed paper sizes: If the print job has mixed paper sizes or mixed orientations, print job will be spitted and will print as simplex at where the mix happens.

- Adobe Acrobat Reader: Print will fail if set page orientation as Landscape, use “System - Administration - Printing” to set paper orientation and be able to send a job as Landscape.

- Adobe Acrobat Reader, OpenOffice and LibreOffice do not support properly custom paper size, these applications do not use the CUPS print dialog box interface and for this reason custom paper size can’t be supported, applications that use the CUPS print dialog box can support custom paper size.

-Duplex: When using a paper size that has constraint against Duplex the UI for Duplex will not display Long Edge as a selectable option.

-Document Viewer and Okular: When using a .pdf test file that is heavy in graphics and produces big printable data the Document Viewer or Okular will not process properly the printable data for the GDI driver causing incorrect output (Acrobat Reader doesn’t have this problem). In some cases updating to latest version of Document Viewer or Okular may help to get better output.