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<title xml:id="system-config-printer-ti1">Install and configure a printer</title>

    <subtitle>system-config-printer</subtitle>
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  <section xml:id="introduction">
    <title xml:id="introduction-ti1">Introducció</title>

    <para>Printing is managed on Mageia by a server named CUPS. It has its own <link
ns2:title="CUPS" ns2:href="http://localhost:631">configuration
interface</link> which is accessible via an Internet browser, but Mageia
offers its own tool for installing printers called system-config-printer
which is shared with other distributions such as Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu
and openSUSE.</para>

    <para>You should enable the non-free repository before proceeding with the
installation, because some drivers may only be available in this way.</para>

    <para>Printer installation is carried out in the <guilabel>Hardware</guilabel>
section of the Mageia Control Centre. Select the <guilabel>Configure
printing and scanning</guilabel> tool<footnote>
        <para>You can start this tool from the command line, by typing
<emphasis>system-config-printer</emphasis>. The root password will be asked
for.</para>
      </footnote>.</para>

    <para>MCC will ask for the installation two packages:</para>

    <blockquote>
      <para>task-printing-server</para>

      <para>task-printing-hp</para>
    </blockquote>

    <para>It is necessary to accept this installation to continue. Up to 230MB of
dependencies are needed.</para>

    <para>To add a printer, choose the "Add" printer button. The system will try to
detect any printers and the ports available. The screenshot displays a
printer connected to a parallel port. If a printer is detected, such as a
printer on a USB port, it will be displayed on the first line.  The window
will also attempt to configure a network printer.</para>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="automatic">
    <title>Automatically detected printer</title>

    <para>This usually refers to USB printers. The utility automatically finds the
name of the printer and displays it. Select the printer and then click
"Next". If there is a known driver associated for the printer, it will be
automatically installed. If there is more than one driver or no known
drivers, a window will ask you to select or furnish one, as explained in the
next paragraph. Continue with <xref linkend="terminate"/></para>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="non_automatic">
    <title>No automatically detected printer</title>

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    <para>When you select a port, the system loads a driver list and displays a window
to select a driver. The choice can be made through one of the following
options.</para>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Select printer from database</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>provide PPD file</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>search for a driver to download</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para>By selecting from the database, the window suggests a printer manufacturer
first, and then a device and a driver associated with it. If more than one
driver is suggested, select one which is recommended, unless you have
encountered some problems with that one before, in this case select the one
which know to work.</para>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="terminate">
    <title>Complete the installation process</title>

    <para>After the driver selection, a window requests some information which will
allow the system to designate and discover the printer. The first line is
the name under which the device will appear in applications in the list of
available printers. The installer then suggests printing a test page. After
this step, the printer is added and appears in the list of available
printers.</para>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="network_printer">
    <title>Network printer</title>

    <para>Network printers are printers that are attached directly to a wired or
wireless network, that are attached to a printserver or that are attached to
another workstation that serves as printserver.</para>

    <note>
      <para>Often, it is better to configure the DHCP server to always associate a fixed
IP address with the printer's MAC-address. Of course that should be the same
as the IP address the printer of printserver is set to, if it has a fixed
one.</para>
    </note>

    <para>The printer's Mac-address is a serial number given to the printer or
printserver or computer it is attached to, that can be obtained from a
configuration page printed by the printer or which may be written on a label
on the printer or printserver. If your shared printer is attached to a
Mageia system, you can run <emphasis><code>ifconfig</code></emphasis> on it
as root to find the MAC-address. It is the sequence of numbers and letters
after "HWaddr".</para>

    <para>You can add your network printer by choosing the protocol it uses to talk to
your computer over the network. If you don't know which protocol to choose,
you can try the <guilabel>Network Printer</guilabel> - <guilabel>Find
Network Printer</guilabel> option in the <guilabel>Devices</guilabel> menu
and give the IP address of the printer in the box on the right, where it
says "host".</para>

    <para>If the tool recognises your printer or printserver, it will propose a
protocol and a queue, but you can choose a more appropriate one from the
list below it or give the correct queue name if it isn't in the list.</para>

    <para>Look in the documentation that came with your printer or printserver to find
which protocol(s) it supports and for possible specific queue names.</para>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="network_printing_protocols">
    <title>Network printing protocols</title>

    <para>One current technique is one developed by Hewlett-Packard and known as
JetDirect. It allows access to a printer directly connected to the network
via an Ethernet port. You must know the IP-address at which the printer is
known on the network. This technique is also used inside some ADSL-routers
which contain an USB port to connect the printer. In this case, the
IP-address is that of the router. Note that the tool "Hp Device manager" can
manage dynamically configured IP-adress, setting an URI like
<emphasis>hp:/net/&lt;name-of-the-printer></emphasis> . In this case, fixed
IP-adress is not required.</para>

    <para>Choose the option <guilabel>AppSocket/HP JetDirect</guilabel> as the
protocol and set the address in <guilabel>Host:</guilabel>, do not change
the <guilabel>Port Number</guilabel>, unless you know that it needs to be
changed. After the selection of the protocol, the selection of the driver is
the same as above.</para>

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    <para>The other protocols are:</para>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)</emphasis>: a printer which can
be accessed on a TCP/IP network via the IPP protocol, for example a printer
connected to a station using CUPS. This protocol may also be used also by
some ADSL-routers.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Internet Printing Protocol (https): </emphasis>the same as ipp,
but using http transport and with TLS secured protocol.  The port has to be
defined. By default, the port 631 is used.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Internet Printing Protocol (ipps): </emphasis>the same as ipp, but
with TLS secured protocol.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>LPD/LPR host or Printer</emphasis>: a printer which can be
accessed on a TCP/IP network via the LPD protocol, for example a printer
connected to a station using LPD.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para><emphasis>Windows printer via SAMBA</emphasis>: a printer connected to a
station running Windows or a SMB server and shared.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para>The URI can also be added directly. Here are some examples on how to form
the URI:</para>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Appsocket</para>

        <para><uri>socket://ip-address-or-hostname:port </uri></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)</para>

        <para><uri>ipp://ip-address-or-hostname:port-number/resource</uri></para>

        <para><uri>http://ip-address-or-hostname:port-number/resource</uri></para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Protocol</para>

        <para><uri>lpd://username@ip-address-or-hostname/queue</uri></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para>Additional information can be found in the <link
ns2:href="http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.5/network.html">CUPS
documentation.</link></para>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="properties">
    <title>Device Properties</title>

    <para>You can access the properties of the device. The menu allows access to
parameters for the CUPS server. By default a CUPS server is launched on your
system, but you can specify a different one with the
<guimenu>Server</guimenu> | <guimenuitem>Connect...</guimenuitem> menu,
another window which gives access to the tuning of other specific parameters
of the server, following <guimenu>Server</guimenu> |
<guimenuitem>Settings.</guimenuitem></para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title xml:id="troubleshoot">Troubleshoot</title>

    <para>You can find some information on occurring errors during printing by
inspecting <filename>/var/log/cups/error_log</filename></para>

    <para>You can also access to a tool to diagnose problems using the
<guimenu>Help</guimenu> | <guilabel>Troubleshoot</guilabel> menu.</para>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="specificities">
    <title>Specifics</title>

    <para>It is possible that some drivers for specific printers are not available in
Mageia or are not functional. In this case, have a look at the <link
ns2:href="http://openprinting.org/printers/">openprinting</link> site to
check if a driver for your device is available. If yes, check if the package
is already present in Mageia and in this case install it manually. Then,
redo the installation process to configure the printer. In all cases, report
the problem in bugzilla or on the forum if you are comfortable with this
tool and furnish the model and driver information and whether the printer
works or not after installation. Here are some sources to find other
up-to-date drivers or for more recent devices.</para>

    <para><emphasis role="bold">Brother printers</emphasis></para>

    <para><link
ns2:href="http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html">This
page</link> give a list of drivers provided by Brother. Search the driver
for your device, download the rpm(s) and install.</para>

    <para>You should install Brother drivers before running the configuration utility.</para>

    <para><emphasis role="bold">Hewlett-Packard printers and All in one
devices</emphasis></para>

    <para>These devices use the hplip tool. It is installed automatically after the
detection or the selection of the printer. You can find other information
<link
ns2:href="http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html">here</link>.  The
tool "HP Device Manager" is available in the <guilabel>System</guilabel>
menu. Also view <link
ns2:href="http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/hp_setup.html">configuration</link>
for the management of the printer.</para>

    <para>A HP All in one device must be installed as a printer and the scanner
features will be added. Note that sometimes, the Xsane interface doesn't
allow to scan films or slides (the lighting slid can't operate).  In this
case, it is possible to scan, using the standalone mode, and save the
picture on a memory card or USB stick inserted in the device.  Afterwards,
open your favourite imaging software and load your picture from the memory
card which is appeared in the /media folder.</para>

    <para><emphasis role="bold">Samsung colour printer</emphasis></para>

    <para>For specific Samsung and Xerox colour printers, <link
ns2:href="http://foo2qpdl.rkkda.com/">this site provides drivers</link> for
the QPDL protocol.</para>

    <para><emphasis role="bold">Epson printers and scanners</emphasis></para>

    <para>Drivers for Epson printers are available from <link
ns2:href="http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX">this
search page</link>. For the scanner part, you must install the "iscan-data"
package first, then "iscan" (in this order). A iscan-plugin package can also
be available and is to install. Choose the <emphasis>rpm</emphasis> packages
according to your architecture. </para>

    <para> It is possible that the iscan package will generate a warning about a
conflict with sane. Users have reported that this warning can be ignored.</para>

    <para><emphasis role="bold">Canon printers</emphasis></para>

    <para>For Canon printers, it may be advisable to install a tool named turboprint
<link ns2:href="http://www.turboprint.info/">available here </link>.</para>
  </section>
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