Printer Setup for StarOffice

Support knowledgebase (ke_so-print)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 6.1

Situation

You want to set up your printer for StarOffice.

Prerequisite

The attached printer can already be used from the command line with lpr. Should this not be the case, set up your printer first. You can refer to the manual for this purpose.

StarOffice must be installed.

Standard Case

This procedure has been tested in SuSE Linux 6.4, but it should work in other versions of SuSE Linux. StarOffice's standard print queue is usually preset and it uses the lpr command to print. Therefore, printing on StarOffice should work without having to perform any additional configuration.

If this is not the case:

  1. Start StarOffice as root.
  2. Select "Printer Setup".
  3. From the list at "Existing printer drivers", select "Generic Printer" (possibly "Generic PostScript Printer", too) and subsequently "Add New Printer".
  4. Now you can find the printer "Generic Printer on queue default_queue (lpr)" under "Installed printers", which can be selected as "Generic Printer" to print a document via "File" and "Print". In this case, StarOffice will print the document by means of the command lpr.

Additional Specific Settings

As a general rule, the standard printer should be able to print relatively quickly and in black and white only. It should be set up accordingly.

An additional print queue should be set up for color print or optimum quality. The command lpr -Pcolor file_name enables printing from the command line via this additional print queue.

  1. Please repeat the first three steps from above.
  2. First, find the printer "Generic Printer_1 on queue default_queue (lpr)" under "Installed printers".
  3. Now select "Connect" then the right print queue at "Existing queues" ("hq=lpr -P color" for this example). StarOffice will print the document with the command lpr -P color.
    Now you can find the printer "Generic Printer_1 on queue color (lpr -P color)" under "Installed printers", which can be subsequently selected as "Generic Printer_1" to print a document via "File" and "Print".

    Note: There should be no spaces between -P and the queue name. For this reason, we could actually enter lpr -Pcolor under "Existing queues" in the example above.


See also:
o Installing a Printer
o Installing a printer since SuSE Linux 6.4 and up to 7.3

Keywords: PRINTER, STAR OFFICE, PRINT

Categories: Commercial Applications , Printer

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