Printer Device Overview
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>> Hey Cybrarians, welcome back to
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the Linux+ course here at Cybrary.
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I'm your instructor Rob Goelz and in today's lesson,
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we're going to be talking about Printer Devices.
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Upon completion of this lesson,
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you are going to be able to
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understand printing support in
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Linux and explain how printing is managed.
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As we previously covered in Module 11,
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Linux uses the Common Unix Printing System or CUPS.
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CUPS provides an interface for working with any printer.
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It accepts jobs using PostScript,
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and then sends the jobs on to a print queue.
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Now CUPS uses Ghostscript to convert
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PostScript documents into a format
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that's understood by the printer.
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CUPS uses printer configuration and drivers which
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are found in etc/cups.
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The configuration files are found in etc/cups.
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CUPS also acts as a daemon,
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it essentially sits in the background
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and waits to accept print requests.
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If you have to configure the daemon for any reason,
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you can find that in etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
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Now remember this, CUPS
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uses the Internet Printing Protocol,
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IPP, which is built on HTTP and runs
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over Port 631, 631 for CUPS.
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Therefore, you can manage CUPS via a web interface.
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It's built on HTTP.
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For example, if you have a local printer,
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you can go to localhost port 631 in a browser,
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and it will allow you to manage the printer that way,
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it's the easiest printer management method.
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But there are also command-line tools
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that you could use to interact with print queues.
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For example, lpc is
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going to let you manage the print queue,
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stop, start or pause the queue.
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Lpq is going to display the queue status.
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Lpr can allow you to send
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a job to the print queue for the command line,
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and then lprm, well,
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that removes the job from the print queue.
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But with that, we've reached the end of the lesson.
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In this lesson, we covered how printing is supported in
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Linux and how printers are managed in Linux.
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Thanks so much for being here and I look
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forward to seeing you in the next lesson.
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