Linux Administration/System Services/Printing

This lesson covers printing.

Objectives and Skills

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Objectives and skills for the printing portion of Linux+ certification include:[1]

  • Manage printers and printing
    • Basic CUPS configuration (for local and remote printers)
    • Manage user print queues
    • Troubleshoot general printing problems
    • Add and remove jobs from configured printer queues
    • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
      • CUPS configuration files, tools and utilities
      • /etc/cups
      • lpd legacy interface (lpr, lprm, lpq)

Readings

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Multimedia

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Activities

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  1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Manage printers and printing

Lesson Summary

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Key Terms

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References

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