Avoiding Printing Problems
. References
CHAPTER 7
Printing with openSUSE
Until relatively recently, printing in Linux has been something
of a chore. As the hardware got cheaper, the proprietary
drivers got more specialized and more valuable to
their vendors. Open-source drivers for the most popular
inkjet printers were hard to come by, and different distributions
did printing differently, even though the protocol
they used was the same. This situation has changed dramatically
since the advent of the Common Unix Printing
System (CUPS), a protocol that simplified things greatly.
Today, openSUSE supports hundreds of printers to one
degree or another, and YaST makes it easy to set up, test,
and configure your printer. In this chapter you will walk
through a printer setup, learn to manage multiple printers
on your system, and use the command line to print documents
directly.
You will also learn a little about PostScript, the primary
UNIX/Linux printing language, and its cousin, the Portable
Document Format (PDF). Linux has always had applications
that read PDF files, and Adobe has occasionally
released Linux versions of Acrobat Reader.
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