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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 &kdeprint; 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 grayed 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>&kdeprint; wizard network scan</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="cupsaddprinterwizard3_networkscan.png"
format="PNG"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>In the &kdeprint; 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>, &kdeprint; 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) &kdeprint; 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 dialog 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>&kdeprint; wizard network configuration dialog</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="cupsaddprinterwizard4_networkscan_config.png"
format="PNG"/></imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>In the &kdeprint; 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 &kdeprint;, 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 favors.</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://kdeprint.sourceforge.net">http://kdeprint.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 dialogs.</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: Baptizing 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 behavior 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>