Thursday, March 12, 2015

PRINTING IN LINUX

Printing in Linux
1.Printers may be local or networked
2. Print requests are sent to queues
3. queued jobs are sent to the printer on a first come first served basic
4. jobs may be canceled before or during printing.
#System-config-printer

Printing command:

    #lprsends a job to the queue to be printed
    #lpqviews the contents of the queue
    #lprmremoves a job from the queue

    Printing utilities:
#evince
view PDF documents
#lpstat -a
lists configured printers
#enscript
convert text to postscript
#ps2pdf
converts postscript to PDF
#mpage
prints multiple pages per sheet


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