Samsung SCX-6545N - Manual (Page 177)

Using Your Printer in Linux
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Configuring Printer Properties
Using the properties window provided by the Printers configuration, you
can change the various properties for your machine as a printer.
1 Open the Unified Driver Configurator.
If necessary, switch to Printers configuration.
2 Select your machine on the available printers list and click
Properties
.
3 The Printer Properties window opens.
The following five tabs display at the top of the window:
• General: allows you to change the printer location and name.
The name entered in this tab displays on the printer list in
Printers configuration.
• Connection: allows you to view or select another port. If you
change the printer port from USB to parallel or vice versa while in
use, you must re-configure the printer port in this tab.
• Driver: allows you to view or select another printer driver. By
clicking Options, you can set the default device options.
• Jobs: shows the list of print jobs. Click Cancel job to cancel the
selected job and select the Show completed jobs check box to
see previous jobs on the job list.
• Classes: shows the class that your printer is in. Click Add to
Class to add your printer to a specific class or click Remove
from Class to remove the printer from the selected class.
4 Click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer Properties
Window.
Printing a Document
Printing from Applications
There are a lot of Linux applications that you are allowed to print from
using Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). You can print on your
machine from any such application.
1 From the application you are using, select Print from the File
menu.
2 Select Print directly using lpr.
3 In the LPR GUI window, select the model name of your machine
from the Printer list and click Properties.
4 Change the printer and print job properties.
The following four tabs display at the top of the window.
• General - allows you to change the paper size, the paper type,
and the orientation of the documents, enables the duplex feature,
adds start and end banners, and changes the number of pages
per sheet.
Click.