Configuring the printer

Be sure that your printer is attached to your PC, switched on, and on-line before you boot indix from CD.

k_in_gear Click at the IndiX KDE Desktop at the bottom left with the left mouse button on the symbol with character "K" in a gear (this is comparable with the <Start> Symbol in Windows 98/NT/XP...).

k_knoppix Click in the menu that opened with the left mouse button at the entry "KNOPPIX".

k_configure Click in the sub menu that opened at the entry "Configure".

k_configure_printers Click in the sub menu that opened at the entry "Configure printer(s)".

printer_magicwand Click in the  window that opens "Printer - KDE-Controltab" at top left with your left mouse button at the magic wand symbol (adding a printer/classe). With this the Printer Configuration Assistant is started.

The assistant will pose one by one the following questions::

  1. How is the printer connected (is it a local one at the parallel port or at the USB port) or is it a network printer.

  2. What is the name of the printer manufacturer and the model type.

  3. Which driver should be used for this printer model. (When more then one driver shows up, you can test the drivers one by one and select the one that performs the best.)

  4. In the "Printer Test" window you can with one click at the button printer_button_settings  set the paper size to "A4" , etc. and with another click at the button printer_button_test print a test page.

  5. If  banner pages should be printed.

  6. If there should be usage restrictions.

  7. What is the name of the printer.

After the configuration of the printer, the assistant is closed and you are back in the window "Printers - KDE Control Module". With a click, bottom right, on k_button_close this window is closed.