# Xfce 4 Printing Management

2004
Jean-François Wauthy
Jean-François
Wauthy

    pollux@xfce.org

Jasper
Huijsmans

    jasperx@xfce.org

This manual describes &app; version &appversion;

## Introduction

The Xfce 4 Printing Management is part of the Xfce Desktop Environment. It's composed of two applications : &xfprint_app; and &xfprint_manager_app;. &xfprint_app; provides a graphical frontend for printing and &xfprint_manager_app; provides printer management and job queue management (if supported by the printing system backend).

Please note that printer configuration is not part of &app;. It can only use printing systems that have already been configured properly.

## Printer selection

Before doing anything with &app; you need to select the printing system backend.

### &app; printing system selection

&app; printing system selection

At the time of this writing three printing system backends are available:

CUPS

  The CUPS printing system is currently the most full-featured printing backend. It supports full job queue support and detection of avaialbel printers.

BSD-LPR

  BSD-LPR is the traditional UNIX printing system available on most systems. This backend provides job queuing support, but with slightly less information than the CUPS backend.

File

  This backend simply creates a postscript file that can later be send to any postscript capable printer or printed by using a postscript viewer.

## Using &xfprint_app;

The &xfprint_app; application allows the user to print files of many different types and to set the printing options. For this it makes use of the a2ps application.

The dialog contains several tabs with a multitude of options. Most of them probably don't have to be changed. The following figures show all notebook tabs of the dialog. For an explanation of the options we refer to the documentation for a2ps.

Sheets

  ### &xfprint_app; dialog | Sheets

  &xfprint_app; dialog | Sheets

Virtual pages

  ### &xfprint_app; dialog | Virtual pages

  &xfprint_app; dialog | Virtual pages system

Pretty-printing

  ### &xfprint_app; dialog | Pretty-printing

  &xfprint_app; dialog | Pretty-printing

Input

  ### &xfprint_app; dialog | Input

  &xfprint_app; dialog | Input

Headings

  ### &xfprint_app; dialog | Headings

  &xfprint_app; dialog | Headings

## Using &xfprint_manager_app;

The &xfprint_manager_app; application provides queue and job control for the printing systems that support it. It allows you to set the printer you want to use and set which one should be the default.

### &xfprint_manager_app; main dialog

&xfprint_manager_app; main dialog

### &xfprint_manager_app; queue management

&xfprint_manager_app; queue management screenshot

## About &app;

&app; was written by Jean-François Wauthy (pollux@xfce.org). To find more information, please visit the Xfce web site.

To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or this manual, use the bug tracking system at http://bugzilla.xfce.org/.

If you have questions about the use or installation of this package, please ask on the xfce mailing list. Development discussion takes place on the xfce4-dev mailing list.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.