Installing Printer Drivers On Linux Computers (Cups); Operation On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop; Setup Overview; Installing The Printer Driver - Dell H815DW User Manual

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), SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (32/64bit), or Ubuntu 12.04
LTS (32/64bit).

Operation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop

Setup Overview

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
su
(Type the administrator password)
rpm -ivh (Type the file path)/Dell-MFP-H815dw-
S2815dn-*.*-*.i686.rpm
For the 64-bit architecture
su
(Type the administrator password)
rpm -ivh (Type the file path)/Dell-MFP-H815dw-
S2815dn-*.*-*.x86_64.rpm
The printer driver is installed.

Setting Up the Queue

To execute printing, you must set up the print queue on your workstation.
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.
For network connections:
Select LPD/LPR Host or Printer from the Other Network Printers menu, and click Continue.
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