Applications rely on the existing printer queues in the same way as any command-line tools do. There is usually no need to reconfigure the printer for a particular application, because you should be able to print from applications using the available queues.
To print from the command line, enter the command lp -d
queuename
filename
, substituting the
corresponding names for queuename
and
filename
.
Some applications rely on the lp
command for printing. In this case, enter the correct command
in the application's print dialog (but usually without specifying
filename
), for example, lp -d
queuename
. To make this work with
KDE programs, enable . Otherwise you cannot enter the
print command.
Tools such as xpp and the KDE program
kprinter provide a graphical interface for
choosing among queues and setting both CUPS standard options and
printer-specific options made available through the PPD
file.
You can use kprinter as the standard printing
interface of non-KDE applications by specifying
kprinter or
kprinter --stdin
as the print
command in the print dialogs of these applications. The behavior of
the application itself determines which of these two commands to
choose. If set up correctly, the application should call the
kprinter dialog whenever a print job is issued
from it, so you can use the dialog to select a queue and set
other printing options. This requires that the application's own print
setup does not conflict with that of kprinter
and that printing options are only changed through
kprinter after it has been enabled.