Configuring Printers

Printing services in linux are managed by a package called CUPS which is an abbreviation for "common unix printing system". If it's not already emerged, emerge cups.

$ sudo emerge -av cups

After the emerge completes, start the cups daemon, and add it to startup.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/cupsd start
$ sudo rc-update add cupsd default

CUPS administration is now done via a web interface. In order to finish configuring your printer, you'll need to emerge a