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<chapter id="add-printer-wizard-2">
<title
>The <quote
>Add Printer Wizard</quote
> for &CUPS;</title>

<para
>Clicking on the leftmost icon on the toolbar <inlinemediaobject
><imageobject
> <imagedata fileref="cr32-action-wizard.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject
> </inlinemediaobject
> in the upper part of the window starts the <quote
>Add Printer Wizard</quote
>.</para>

<para
>This wizard steps you through various screens to install a new printer. At present this Wizard works for &CUPS; and the <acronym
>RLPR</acronym
> environment module. The number of steps depend on the actual print-subsystem which is active and available to you on your box.</para>

<sect1>
<title
>Starting</title>

<para
>The welcome screen informs you that you can go back any time to change a setting. </para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo
>The &tdeprint; wizard introduction screen</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="cupsaddprinterwizard1.png"
format="PNG"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase
>The introduction screen of the printer wizard</phrase
></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

</sect1>
<sect1 id="backend-selection">
<title
>Backend Selection</title>

<para
>Choose the <quote
>backend</quote
> protocol that &CUPS; is supposed to use with your new printer. There are:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para
>local printer (serial, parallel, <acronym
>USB</acronym
>)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para
>remote <acronym
>LPD</acronym
> queue</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para
><acronym
>SMB</acronym
> shared printer (&Windows;)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para
>Network Printer (<acronym
>TCP</acronym
>, &HP; JetDirect, AppSocket)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para
>Network printer with &IPP; (&IPP;/<acronym
>HTTP</acronym
>)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para
>File printer</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para
>serial fax /modem printer</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para
>Class of Printers</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para
>If some choices are greyed out, they are not available. For example, you may have no FAX backend software or no modem installed to use it.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo
>Choosing your Printer system</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="cupsaddprinterwizard2_backendselection.png"
format="PNG"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase
>Choosing your Printer System</phrase
></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="direct-network-settings">
<title
>Direct Network Setting</title>

<para
>The contents of your next screen is dependent on your choice in the previous screen. If you know the details, just type them in to configure your network settings directly.</para>

<para
>In other cases the wizard can scan the network for you, to help you decide which setting could be useful. </para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo
>&tdeprint; wizard network scan</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="cupsaddprinterwizard3_networkscan.png"
format="PNG"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase
>In the &tdeprint; wizard, you can enter network details directly, or you can scan the network automatically.</phrase
></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

</sect1>
<sect1 id="information-retrieval-by-network-scanning">
<title
>Information Retrieval by Scanning the Network</title>

<para
>If you use one of the network connections (remote <acronym
>LPD</acronym
>, <acronym
>SMB</acronym
>, remote &CUPS;, network printer with &IPP;), you have an option for scanning the network. Be careful when applying this; in some environments network scanning is considered to be hostile and harmful!</para>

<para
>In the case of <acronym
>SMB</acronym
>, &tdeprint; will use the Samba utilities <command
>nmblookup</command
> and <command
>smbclient</command
> (which need to be installed for this to work) to retrieve the information it presents in a tree structure.</para>

<para
>In the case of &IPP; (Port 631) and <acronym
>TCP</acronym
> Network/AppSocket (Port 9100) &tdeprint; will try to open the port and, if successful, send an <command
>ipp-get-printer-attribute</command
> request to the printer. For newer &HP; printers the latter usually works, because they support both AppSocket and &IPP;.</para>

<para
>Some printers or manufacturers use other port numbers for direct TCP/IP printing. You may need to look up which one to use. The <guilabel
>Settings</guilabel
> button in the dialogue lets you configure your scan, including <acronym
>IP</acronym
> addresses, ports and timeout to use.</para>

<para
>Once again: be careful not to be mistaken for an intruder on your network, if you use the scanning technique.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo
>&tdeprint; wizard network configuration dialogue</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="cupsaddprinterwizard4_networkscan_config.png"
format="PNG"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase
>In the &tdeprint; wizard, you can enter parameters to have the wizard scan parts of your network.</phrase
></textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

</sect1>
<sect1 id="printer-model-selection">
<title
>Printer Model Selection</title>

<para
>The hardest part is probably the <quote
>Printer Model Selection</quote
>. In former years the situation was difficult, because there were hardly any drivers to find. The difficulty now is there are too many; though some of them are very good, many are quite broken. </para>

<para
>If you have a current <quote
>database</quote
> of available drivers on your system, select the manufacturer in the left part of the window first, then the device model in the right part. This split window shows all &PPD;s found by &CUPS; in its standard repository of installable &PPD;s. This repository normally is <filename class="directory"
>/usr/share/cups/model/</filename
>. If you want your driver to be found automatically by &CUPS; and &tdeprint;, place it in there.</para>

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</sect1>

<sect1 id="driver-selection">
<title
>Driver Selection</title>

<para
>On the next screen you will see a description of the driver selected previously. This description is extracted from the actual &PPD; used.</para>

<warning>
<para
>For a real &PostScript; printer <emphasis
>never</emphasis
> try to install a <quote
>Foomatic</quote
> or <quote
>Gimp-Print</quote
> &PPD;, even if it is offered. You won't be happy with it. Instead find the original &PPD; from the manufacturer, preferably the one written for &Windows; NT and use it. </para>
</warning>

<para
>Some &Linux; distributions have supplied for &CUPS; every possible combination of <application
>Ghostscript</application
> filters and <quote
>foomatic</quote
> &PPD; files they could find on the net. Many of these are quite useless; they were generated a year ago, when the people at <ulink url="http://www.linuxprinting.org"
>www.linuxprinting.org</ulink
> began their first experiments with supplying third party &PPD;s for &CUPS;. Although dubbed <quote
>Alpha</quote
> at the time, these started to take on a life of their own and can now be found at various places on the net, doing &CUPS; no favours.</para>

<para
>If you are not sure which ones to use go to:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para
><ulink
url="http://www.linuxprinting.org"
>http://www.linuxprinting.org</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.cups.org"
>http://www.cups.org</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para
>And ask for help. At a later stage, a document detailing the differences between the different driver and &PPD; models will appear at <ulink url="http://tdeprint.sourceforge.net"
>http://tdeprint.sourceforge.net/</ulink
> Watch out for this!</para>

<para
>Via the <guibutton
>Other...</guibutton
> button you are able to retrieve any &PPD; located somewhere on your available file system.</para>

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</sect1>
<sect1 id="printer-test-and-finding-settings">
<title
>Printer Test and Finding the Right Settings</title>

<para
>Specify your first driver settings now. The most important one is the default paper size. In many cases this is set to <quote
>Letter</quote
>. If you live in an <quote
>A4</quote
> country and don't want your first test page to jam: now is the time to prevent this. </para>

<para
>You are ready to start a test print. Hit the <guibutton
>Test</guibutton
> button.</para>

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</sect1>

<sect1 id="banner-selection">
<title
>Banner Selection</title>

<para
>The last but one screen lets you select whether you want banners, and which ones you want to use, to mark the beginning and/or end of every printjob on that printer. You can also select and deselect banners before printing in the job options dialogues.</para>

<para
>If you need to use custom banners, copy them into <filename class="directory"
>/usr/share/cups/banners/</filename
> to make them available for selection. They must be &PostScript; files, however.</para>

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</sect1>

<sect1 id="baptizing-your-printer">
<title
>Finally: Baptising Your New Printer</title>

<para
>The last screen lets you insert a name for your new printer.</para>

<para
>The name must start with a letter and may contain numbers and underscores with a maximum size of 128 characters. Conform to this if you want to avoid erratic behaviour of your &CUPS; daemon. The printer names in &CUPS; are <emphasis
>not</emphasis
> case sensitive! This is a requirement of &IPP;. So the names <systemitem class="resource"
>DANKA_infotec</systemitem
>, <systemitem class="resource"
>Danka_Infotec</systemitem
> and <systemitem class="resource"
>danka_infotec</systemitem
> all represent the same printer.</para>

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</sect1>

<sect1 id="final-confirmation-screen">
<title
>The Final Confirmation Screen</title>

<para
> 
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</para>

</sect1>

</chapter>