Document Design of the YaST2 Printer Configurator: local printers
Author Jan Holesovsky <kendy@suse.cz>
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Local Printers

Printing on them is possible by sending the data to the device (/dev/*). All the possible autodetection is done by the libhd.

Autoprobe of the printer model

It is possible for the parallel and the USB printers. The autoprobed values are provided by the libhd library as well.

Dialog boxes

See The Printer (Auto)configurator document, section The Configuration Wizard and Design of the YaST2 Printer Configurator, section Common dialog boxes.

There is only one connection-specific dialog box. It is for the step 5.ii of the Configuration Wizard. There, the possible device names are shown in a listbox and the user can choose. In some cases, there can be an additional info to set (e.g. speed for the serial printers). Buttons: Test, Next, Back.

The test button opens one more dialog, where the user can send a short message to the printer. If this times out, there seems to be a problem with the connection of the printer.