Printer Properties Help

This help file is incomplete.

Comment

Use this tab to enter information describing the printer. This information is for human consumption.

The Comment is displayed by ppop destionation-comment. It also will be the comment for Samba shares.

The Location is the physical location of the printer. A building name or street address and room number would be good. This information is helps when dispatching repairmen.

The Department field can be used to indicate the department that uses the printer.

The Contact field is for the name and telephone number or e-mail address of a user of the printer. The should be someone who works near the printer. When diagnosing problems, the system administrator may want to call this person and suggest he clear paper jams or ask if the printer is turned on.

Interface

On this screen you can select an interface program to be used for communicating with the printer. You can also specify an address which the interface program should use when contacting the printer. Finally, you can enter a list of options which should be passed to the interface program in order modify its behavior.

RIP

Here you can indicate that an external Raster Image Processor should be used when printing PostScript job on this printer. This can enable you to print PostScript jobs on a printer that does not have an internal PostScript interpreter. Generally this RIP will be Ghostscript.

Features

Bins

PPD

A PPD file is a PostScript Printer Description. In gives information about how a specific PostScript printer differs from other PostScript printers. This information includes the list of available fonts, the list of input trays, whether the printer can print in duplex, and the like.

On the left you will see a list of the PPD files which are available on the print server.

If you do not find a PPD file that exactly matches you printer, you might choose a PPD file for a similar model or an older model from the same manufacturer. Of course, it the best thing to do is the obtain the correct PPD file and put it on the server. Be sure you convert the line ending to Unix style before you puttin it in the /usr/share/ppr/PPDFiles directory on the server (or in any other directory listed in the [PPD] section of ppr.conf). You should then run this command:

# ~ppr/bin/ppr-index ppds

On the right there is a table which gives a brief summary of the information about the currently selected PPD file.

Alerts

Switchset

Samba

AppleTalk

Limits

Userparams

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