Project 10-1
In this hands-on project, you create a local printer using the Printer Configuration tool.
1. Turn on your computer. After your Linux
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GNOME Desktop Environment as user1.
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2. After the GNOME desktop has loaded, navigate to the System menu, Administration,
Printing.
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3. Create a new printer by clicking the Add button. Supply the root user password of
secret when prompted and click Authenticate (you will be prompted twice).
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4. Click Forward at the Add a new print queue screen.
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5. Ensure that Other is selected in the left pane, type parallel:/dev/null in the Enter
Device URI dialog box, and click Forward.
The special device /dev/null represents nothing; any print jobs sent to
this device will be discarded.
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6. At the Choose Driver screen, ensure that Generic is selected and click Forward. Ensure
that text-only printer is highlighted in the left pane and click Forward.
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7. At the Describe Printer screen, type p1 in the Printer Name dialog box and click Apply.
Supply the root user password of secret when prompted and click Authenticate. If
prompted for the root password again, type secret and click OK. If prompted to
print a test page, click NO.
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8. Close the Printer Configuration tool and log out of the GNOME desktop.
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Project 10-2
In this hands-on project, you view your printer configuration, control the print process, create
print jobs, and manage jobs in the print queue.
1. Switch to a command-line terminal (tty2) by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 and log in to the
terminal using the user name of root and the password of secret.
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2. At the terminal screen prompt, type cat /etc/cups/printers.conf and press Enter.
Compare the entries in this file for your printer with the settings you specified in Project 10-1 [Show Less]