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+<chapter id="getting-started">
+<title
+>Getting Started</title>
+
+<para
+>This chapter of the &tdeprint; Handbook will walk you through most of the configuration or selection options of &tdeprint;. It will mainly deal with &CUPS; in this version, as the author is most familiar with it, and also because &tdeprint; started off with supporting &CUPS; best. Later versions of the &tdeprint; software and editions of this handbook will support and explore other printing systems more closely.</para>
+
+<sect1 id="selecting-your-print-subsystem">
+<title
+>Selecting Your Print Subsystem</title>
+
+<para
+>You need to define your print subsystem, before you are able to install any printer with the &tdeprint; framework. There are two areas where you can define this: either in &kcontrol; (The <guilabel
+>Printing Manager</guilabel
+> section), or directly and <quote
+>on the fly</quote
+> from the print dialogue.</para>
+
+<para
+>Navigate to <menuchoice
+><guimenu
+>K Menu</guimenu
+> <guisubmenu
+>Preferences</guisubmenu
+> <guisubmenu
+>System</guisubmenu
+> <guimenuitem
+>Printing Manager</guimenuitem
+></menuchoice
+>. At the bottom you can see a button that lets you select which printing subsystem you want to use. In &kde; 2.2 you can choose from the following alternatives:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para
+>&CUPS; (Common &UNIX; Printing System)</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para
+>Print through an external program (generic)</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para
+><acronym
+>LPR</acronym
+> (Standard <acronym
+>BSD</acronym
+> Print System)</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para
+>Generic &UNIX; <acronym
+>LPD</acronym
+> print system (the default)</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para
+><acronym
+>RLPR</acronym
+> environment (print to remote <acronym
+>LPD</acronym
+> servers from the command line)</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para
+>Of course, the chosen system must be installed, and up and running on your box prior to your selection, or before it takes effect. </para>
+
+<para
+>On it's first startup, &tdeprint; will try an autodetection. This only works for:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para
+>&CUPS;, as it is checking first for a running &CUPS; daemon</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para
+><acronym
+>LPD</acronym
+>, as it is checking for a running <acronym
+>LPD</acronym
+> daemon, plus a <filename
+>printcap</filename
+> file.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<!-- <para>
+Go to System->XY->ABC. Now you can choose from the following
+alternatives: 
+</para
+>-->
+
+<para
+>The system you choose must be installed on your system prior to your selection. The author's personal recommendation is &CUPS;.</para>
+
+<para
+>Once autodetected, chosen, or changed, the active print subsystem will take effect for all &kde; applications. Different users may have different print subsystems in use, if those do exist on the computer and are compliant with each other. Their settings are stored in the <filename
+>tdeprintrc</filename
+>. This file is unique to every user, and is normally installed in <filename
+>$<envar
+>HOME</envar
+>/.kde/share/config/tdeprintrc</filename
+>.</para>
+
+<warning>
+<para
+>This file is not intended to be directly editable, and all available options can be set from the &tdeprint; &GUI;.</para>
+</warning>
+
+<para
+>You may even select a different printer subsystem, on the fly, from the &kprinter; dialogue box.</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="working-with-printing-manger">
+<title
+>Working with the Printing Manager</title>
+
+<para
+>Once you have chosen your preferred and installed print subsystem, you are ready to investigate, configure administer and work with this system through the &tdeprint; framework.</para>
+
+<para
+>Navigate to <menuchoice
+><guimenu
+>K Menu</guimenu
+> <guisubmenu
+>Preferences</guisubmenu
+> <guisubmenu
+>System</guisubmenu
+> <guimenuitem
+>Printing Manager</guimenuitem
+></menuchoice
+>. In the right part of the window you will see at least 4 printers predefined. These are the virtual or special purpose printers, explained in section . You will probably see a toolbar with 13 icons at the top of the window, and at least 4 tabs in the lower half of the window, labelled <guilabel
+>Information</guilabel
+>, <guilabel
+>Jobs</guilabel
+>, <guilabel
+>Properties</guilabel
+> and <guilabel
+>Instances</guilabel
+>.</para>
+
+<!-- Not needed: the default view is as described, this can be mentioned -->
+<!-- elsewhere <para
+>If you start the <guilabel
+>Printing -->
+<!-- Manager</guilabel
+> module for the first time, you may be missing -->
+<!-- Icons or tabs. <mousebutton
+>Right</mousebutton
+>-clicking the mouse -->
+<!-- on the white background of the right part of the window opens a -->
+<!-- Menu to select your viewing preferences. To get the same view as in -->
+<!-- most screenshots, select: <guimenuitem
+>View Toolbar</guimenuitem
+> -->
+<!-- and <guimenuitem
+>View Printer Information</guimenuitem
+> and -->
+<!-- <guimenuitem
+>View Icons</guimenuitem
+> and <guimenuitem
+>Orientation -->
+<!-- Vertical</guimenuitem
+>. Moving the mouse over one Button and -->
+<!-- waiting a second gives you a tooltip hint about its functions. -->
+
+<!-- 
+
+3.3 Selection: &CUPS; or other?
+
+If your selection of the print system is &CUPS;, you will have more 
+choices at your fingertips than with any other printing 
+system. &CUPS; is new to most Linux users (even the senior
+hackers amongst us), and it is quite easy to use. But it
+is at the same time very different from other printing systems.
+Therfor the &CUPS; part in the &tdeprint; Handbook is naturally
+the most detailed.
+
+Future editions of the &tdeprint; handbook will describe in
+more detail the other systems.
+-->       
+
+</sect1>
+
+</chapter>