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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 &tdeprint; 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 greyed 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
+>&tdeprint; wizard network scan</screeninfo>
+<mediaobject>
+<imageobject>
+<imagedata fileref="cupsaddprinterwizard3_networkscan.png"
+format="PNG"/></imageobject>
+<textobject>
+<phrase
+>In the &tdeprint; 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
+>, &tdeprint; 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) &tdeprint; 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 dialogue 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
+>&tdeprint; wizard network configuration dialogue</screeninfo>
+<mediaobject>
+<imageobject>
+<imagedata fileref="cupsaddprinterwizard4_networkscan_config.png"
+format="PNG"/></imageobject>
+<textobject>
+<phrase
+>In the &tdeprint; 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 &tdeprint;, place it in there.</para>
+
+<!-- Insert Screenshot here: -->
+
+</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 favours.</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://tdeprint.sourceforge.net"
+>http://tdeprint.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>
+
+<!-- Insert Screenshot here: -->
+
+</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>
+
+<!-- Insert Screenshot here: -->
+
+</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 dialogues.</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>
+
+<!-- Insert Screenshot here: -->
+
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="baptizing-your-printer">
+<title
+>Finally: Baptising 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 behaviour 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>
+
+<!-- Insert Screenshot here: -->
+
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="final-confirmation-screen">
+<title
+>The Final Confirmation Screen</title>
+
+<para
+>
+<!-- Insert Screenshot here: -->
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+</chapter>