Manage Printers and Printing
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.
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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.
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