Table of Contents

1 Introduction

To configure your printing subsystem from KControl

2 Technical Overview

A Brief Description of KDEPrint

What it is not

What it is

KDEPrint -- Different Usage for Different People

What users and administrators can do with KDEPrint

What KDE developers can do with it...

What KDEPrint offers to everybody...

How to access KDEPrint

3 KDEPrint's Highlights

The “Add Printer” Wizard

Full Print Job Control

Modules for different print subsystems

More KDEPrint “Goodies”

CUPS Support: the Most Important Module in KDEPrint

qtcups and kups — The Predecessors

KDEPrint — The Heir

kprinter — Graphical Print Command

Plans for Future Development

4 Some Theoretical Background: CUPS, IPP, PostScript® and GhostScript

Basics About Printing

PostScript® in memory - Bitmaps on Paper

Raster Images on Paper Sheets

RIP: From PostScript® to Raster

GhostScript as a Software RIP

‘Drivers’ and ‘Filters’ in General

Drivers and Filters and Backends in CUPS

Spoolers and Printing Daemons

Excursion: How “CUPS” uses the power of PPDs

Device Dependent Print Options

Where to get the PPDs for PostScript® Printers

How Special PPDs are Now Useful Even For Non-PostScript® Printers.

Different Ways to get PPDs for non-PostScript® Printers

How IPP Support Makes CUPS the Best Choice Around

‘LPD Must Die!’

How the IPP Came to Be

Why IPP is Solving Many Problems

Printer ‘Plug'n'Play’ for Clients

‘Seeing’ Printers Not Installed Locally?

Printing Without Installing a Driver

‘Zero Administration’, Load Balancing, and ‘Failover Switching’

5 Getting Started

Selecting Your Print Subsystem

Working with the Printing Manager

6 Print Server Configuration: CUPS

Quick Help

Longer Help

Explaining different elements of the GUI

Upper Window: View on Printers, both Real and Virtual

Lower Window: Tabbed View of Details

Welcome to the CUPS Server Configuration

Server General Configuration

Server Logging Configuration

Server Directories Configuration

Server HTTP Configuration

Server encryption support configuration

Server Miscellaneous Configuration

Network General Configuration

Network Clients Configuration

Browsing General Configuration

Browsing Connection Configuration

Browsing Masks Configuration

Browsing Timeouts Configuration

Browsing Relay Configuration

Security Configuration

Example: How To Define The Security For All Printers

7 The ‘Add Printer Wizard’ for CUPS

Starting

Backend Selection

Direct Network Setting

Information Retrieval by Scanning the Network

Printer Model Selection

Driver Selection

Printer Test and Finding the Right Settings

Banner Selection

Finally: Baptizing Your New Printer

The Final Confirmation Screen

8 CUPS options presently not available through KControl

Overview of provided features

Where to find help when using CUPS

How to find CUPS related man pages

Outside KDEPrint: Hints & Tips Tricks with CUPS on the Commandline

Allowing or denying printer access for certain users

Imposing Quotas for certain printers

Installing a ‘raw’ printer

Troubleshooting CUPS in KDEPrint

Error Messages

Questions and Answers

Solving Problems

9 Module Built Around rlpr Utility

Overview of provided features

10 Generic LPD Module (UNIX®)

Overview of Provided Features

11 LPR (BSD)

Overview of Provided Features

12 LPRng

13 Module For External Print Command (Netscape®-like)

Overview of provided features

14 KDEPrint Extensions To All Print Subsystems

“Virtual” Printers

The ‘Fax’ Printer

The ‘File’ Printer

The ‘PDF’ Printer

“External” Filters

The enscript Filter for Text Files

The ‘n-up’ Filter for Any File

Three different ‘Make Pamphlet’ Filters for PostScript® Files

15 Final word from the Author

Who am I, what is my business?

Credits

Caveats

16 Credits And Licenses