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Installing Printer Drivers on Linux Computers (CUPS)
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Installing Printer Drivers on Linux Computers (CUPS)
This section provides information for installing or setting up the printer driver with CUPS (Common UNIX Printing
System) on Red Hat
®

Enterprise Linux
®
6 (32/64bit) Desktop or SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (32/64bit),
or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (32/64bit).
Operation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop
Setup Overview
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop:
1 Install the printer driver.
2 Set up the print queue.
3 Specify the default queue.
4 Specify the printing options.
Installing the Printer Driver
1
Select Applications

System Tools

Terminal .
2 Type the following command in the terminal window.
For the 32-bit architecture
For the 64-bit architecture
The printer driver is installed.
Setting Up the Queue
To execute printing, you must set up the print queue on your workstation.
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop:
1 Open the URL "http://localhost:631" using a web browser.
2 Click Administration .
3 Click Add Printer .
4 Type
root
as the user name, type the administrator password, and click OK .
su
(Type the administrator password)
rpm -ivh (Type the file path)/Dell-Printer-
S2810dn-*.*-*.i686.rpm
su
(Type the administrator password)
rpm –ivh (Type the file path)/Dell-Printer-
S2810dn-*.*-*.x86_64.rpm