Installing a laser printer in Ubuntu 9.04
Installing a laser printer is actually straight forward, if you keep in mind, that most laser printers has standard queues, from which they accept input. One of these is the raw queue, also referred to as RAW or RAW1. Using this, you do not have to mingle with drivers in the operating system or drivers from the vendors.
Select “System”, “Administration” and “Printing”. Select “New” and “Printer”. Using the guide, select “Generic” and “Raw Queue”.
Open a browser, such as Firefox, and open a website, that contains simple text and graphics, such as the front page of Google. Configure printer options, such as paper size, headers and footers. Print the page and adjust as necessary. Margins and other options can be set in the “Printing” utility from before. Select the installed laser printer, “Printer”, “Properties” and “Job Options”.
In this case, a Dell 1710N network laser printer was installed.
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