Technical:Printing

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It's often necessary to attach a printer to a thin client terminal, and the documentation at http://www.ltsp.org/documentation gives good pointers on how to do this - see Chapter 5 and Section 9.2.6.

If you connect your printer via the LPT port, it's only necessary to add two parameters in your entry for the terminal in lts.conf, e.g

~[[ws002]]
# Jammin 125
         ~[[00:50:41:01:24:d9]]
         .
         .
         .
         PRINTER''0''DEVICE   = /dev/lp0   # these are zeros
         PRINTER''0''TYPE     = P          # P-Parallel, S-Serial

It was also helpful to "fix" the workstation IP address using the ethernet MAC in dhcpd.conf (see the examples in that file) e.g.

    host ws002 {
        hardware ethernet 00:50:41:01:24:d9;
        fixed-address 192.168.0.2;
    }

With K12LTSP v.3.1.0, it's easy to configure and remove printers with the Menu > System Settings > Printing applet. When ading your terminal printer, the other things you need to know are to select "~JetDirect", and then enter the workstation IP. And then of course, to re-start dhcpd.

The default CUPS printing system in v.3.1.0 provides a web interface which can be used for job control at http://localhost:631/admin.

JohnIngleby