Printing with CUPS (Slackware)

Q) How do I add my printer/ enabling printing/ etc?

By default, Slackware now uses CUPS (as of 10.1, though apsfilter and lrpng can be found in /pasture).

To start CUPS, as root:

cd /etc/rc.d
chmod +x rc.cups
./rc.cups start

Confirm CUPS is running, thus:

ps -ef | grep cups

If running, result will be like:

root 3657 1 0 09:24 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd

Before using CUPS, check the information for your printer at www.linuxprinting.org - it will tell you which is the best driver for your printer, and where to get it (gimp-print drivers come with the gimp-print package in Slackware, Ghostscript (LP's "PPD") based drivers require you to download a PPD front end file and put this in /usr/share/cups/model)

To add your printer, you can either use the command line: CUPS Admin Manual - Managing Printers (www.cups.org)

Or you can use the web based configuration: http://localhost:631

Either of the methods above can also be used for managing printers, printer classes, etc.

Worked example using Firefox to browse to http://localhost:631/printers (Slackware 11, Netgear PS110 print server at IP address 192.168.0.20 and HP LaserJet 2200D on Port 1)
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