Chapter 1. Overview

Table of Contents

1.1. Printer vs. Queue
1.2. Queue types
1.3. The workflow

YaST2 Printer configurator (printconf) should help user to set up local and network printers.

1.1. Printer vs. Queue

For understanding the printer configuration problems you should keep in mind that there is a difference between physical device - Printer and logical device - Queue. There can be any number of queues assigned to one printer.

There can be special kind of queue - raw queue. This queue doesn't perform filtering and sends the data to the printer unchanged.