Chapter 14. Kups: Installing a new printer

Table of Contents
14.1. Install and launch Kups
14.2. Configure a new printer

This short chapter will guide you through the process to configure a parallel printer directly connected to your computer thanks to the KDE interface to the CUPS printing system.

14.1. Install and launch Kups

First make sure that the Kups package is installed. If not, install it and reboot entering your BIOS, making sure that the parallel port mode is not set to SPP but to ECP+EPP (or at least one of them). If it's not the case, you will be able to print anyway, but your printer will not be able to be auto-detected so you will have to configure it by hand. Also make sure that the printer is powered-on when you reboot. Then go to the menu Item Configuration+Printing->Kups. The main Kups window (figure 14-1) will show up.

Figure 14-1. The Kups main window


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