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l Classes: shows the class that your printer is in. Click Add to Class to add your printer to a specific class or click Remove from Class to remove the printer from the selected class. l Click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer Properties Window. Printing a Document Printing from Applications There are many Linux applications from which you are allowed to print using the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). You can print from any of these application on your machine. 1. From the application you are using, select Print from the File menu. 2. Select Print directly using lpr. 3. In the Dell LPR window, select the model name of your machine from the Printer list and click Properties. 4. Change the printer and print job properties. The following four tabs display at the top of the window. l General: allows you to change the paper size, paper type, and orientation of the documents, enables the duplex feature, adds start and end banners, and changes the number of pages per sheet. l Text: allows you to specify the page margins and set the text options, such as spacing or columns. l Graphics: allows you to set image options used when printing images/files, such as color options, image size, or image position. l Device: allows you to set the print resolution, paper source, and destination. 5. Click OK to apply the changes and close the Properties window. 6. Click OK in the Dell LPR window to start printing. 7. The Printing window appears allowing you to monitor the status of your print job. To abort the current job, click Cancel. Printing Files You can print many different types of files on the Dell printer device directly from the command line interface using the standard CUPS way. The CUPS lpr utility allows you do that, but the driver's package replaces the standard lpr tool with a much more user-friendly Dell LPR program.

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l
Classes
: shows the class that your printer is in. Click
Add to Class
to add your printer to a specific class or click
Remove from Class
to remove the
printer from the selected class.
l
Click
OK
to apply the changes and close the
Printer Properties
Window.
Printing a Document
Printing from Applications
There are many Linux applications from which you are allowed to print using the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). You can print from any of these
application on your machine.
1.
From the application you are using, select
Print
from the
File
menu.
2.
Select
Print
directly using
lpr
.
3.
In the Dell LPR window, select the model name of your machine from the Printer list and click
Properties
.
4.
Change the printer and print job properties.
The following four tabs display at the top of the window.
l
General
: allows you to change the paper size, paper type, and orientation of the documents, enables the duplex feature, adds start and end
banners, and changes the number of pages per sheet.
l
Text
: allows you to specify the page margins and set the text options, such as spacing or columns.
l
Graphics
: allows you to set image options used when printing images/files, such as color options, image size, or image position.
l
Device
: allows you to set the print resolution, paper source, and destination.
5.
Click
OK
to apply the changes and close the
Properties
window.
6.
Click
OK
in the Dell LPR window to start printing.
7.
The Printing window appears allowing you to monitor the status of your print job.
To abort the current job, click
Cancel
.
Printing Files
You can print many different types of files on the Dell printer device directly from the command line interface using the standard CUPS way. The CUPS lpr utility
allows you do that, but the driver's package replaces the standard lpr tool with a much more user-friendly Dell LPR program.