Manage Printers and Printing

Introduction

The Manage Printers and Printing module provides you with the instructions and devices to develop your hands on skills in the following topics.

• Basic CUPS configuration (for local and remote printers)
• Manage user print queues
• Troubleshoot general printing problems

Lab time: It will take approximately 1 hour to complete this lab.

Exercise 1 - Manage printers and printing

Printing is a common thing that everyone is pretty much familiar with. Most offices will have a printer and the system administrator manages it. There are a few common terms that one should be familiar with. These terms are:

• Printer - responsible for accepting requests from one or more users to print documents
• Print Queue - Holds the print requests till the associated printer prints them
• Spooling - Sends the print jobs to the printer
• Spooler - Manages the print queue.

In this exercise, you will understand how to manage printers and printing.