E.11 Printer Administration

E.11.1 Basic Printer Configuration

E.11.1.1 Question

I am having trouble setting up my printer. My printer is not listed in the printer configuration tool.

E.11.1.2 Answer

Due to licensing problems, we can not ship the latest ghostscript. It is however available for download in the directory (having been contributed by another Red Hat user):

http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~typhoon/

This later version of ghostscript supports many more printers.

E.11.2 Truncated Printout

E.11.2.1 Question

When I print, lines from my printout get truncated.

E.11.2.2 Answer

Some printers truncate ASCII lines when printing a page. This is how the printer handles lines that are too long. The text must be run through something that will format the text, like pr or mpage before sending it to the printer.