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Ankur Shah has been working with Linux/AIX for last 4 years as a System Administrator. His previous assignment was with Packt Publishing, where he worked as System Administrator and also started implementing CUPS. He completed his graduation in Computer Engineering from Nagpur University, India. He is currently working as a SAP Basis Administrator and also started working on Governance Risk and Compliance for access Control. He is also interested in Oracle Database Administration and Security. He is the biggest fan of Kajol (a Bollywood actress) and dedicates this book to her. The day her movie releases is a day of celebration for him and he only parties once a year - 5th August - that's Kajol's birthday. It goes without saying that he watches all her movies several times - often dragging his friends and family to participate in his madness.
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Configuring Printer Classes


By default there are no printer classes set up. You will need to define them. The following are some of the criteria you can use to define printer classes:

  • Printer Type: Printer type can be a PostScript or non-PostScript printer.

  • Location: The location can describe the printer's place; for example the printer is placed on the third floor of the building.

  • Department: Printer classes can also be defined on the basis of the department to which the printer belongs. The printer class might contain several printers that are used in a particular order.

CUPS always checks for an available printer in the order in which printers were added to a class. Therefore, if you want a high-speed printer to be accessed first, you would add the high-speed printer to the class before you add a low-speed printer. This way, the high-speed printer can handle as many print requests as possible, and the low-speed printer would be reserved as a backup printer when the high-speed printer...

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Ankur Shah has been working with Linux/AIX for last 4 years as a System Administrator. His previous assignment was with Packt Publishing, where he worked as System Administrator and also started implementing CUPS. He completed his graduation in Computer Engineering from Nagpur University, India. He is currently working as a SAP Basis Administrator and also started working on Governance Risk and Compliance for access Control. He is also interested in Oracle Database Administration and Security. He is the biggest fan of Kajol (a Bollywood actress) and dedicates this book to her. The day her movie releases is a day of celebration for him and he only parties once a year - 5th August - that's Kajol's birthday. It goes without saying that he watches all her movies several times - often dragging his friends and family to participate in his madness.
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