Chapter 14. Printing

The paperless society has not yet come to pass, and it now seems more likely that we'll just move from conventional paper to electronic paper. Until that time comes, you'll need to communicate with many people by putting your computer documents on bleached dead trees.

Because many distributions set up printing for you, we start this chapter with an introduction to command-line utilities you can use for printing and printer control. Then we'll explain how to configure printing on both local and network printers, focusing on the simple and powerful Common Unix Printing System (CUPS ).