Printing from your Personal Linux Laptop

Redhat, Fedora, or Scientific Linux

• Open your system's Printer Configuration GUI
  • depending on your distribution, this may be opened by typing redhat-config-printer or system-config-printer at the command line.
• Click on "New"
• Click "Forward"
• give the printer a name and short description; click "Forward"
• For "Select a queue type:" choose Networked UNIX (LPD)
• For "Server:" enter cups.lns.cornell.edu
• For "Queue:" enter the name of the queue you would like to use.
  • This can be found from http://www.lns.cornell.edu/proxy/pc83/cgi-bin/printers/printer_list.pl
• click "Forward"
• choose Generic PostScript Printer and click on "Forward"
• Click on "Apply" to create the printer.