| Ghostscript BubbleJet printer drivers | |
gsdj [dj500, lj, lp] | Ghostscript DeskJet printer drivers |
lpadmin | CUPS command-line-based printer utility |
lp | Starts a CUPS print job |
lpc | A Berkeley-subset CUPS printer control client |
lpf | General printer filter |
lprm | A Berkeley-compatible CUPS job queue utility |
lpstat | Displays CUPS print jobs and printer status |
mpage | PostScript text formatting utility |
pbm[2ppa, page, to10x, toepson, toppa, toptx] | Portable bitmap conversion utilities |
pr | Text formatting command |
psmandup | Duplex printing utility for nonduplex printers |
reject | Controls CUPS print job destinations |
setup | Launches printer configuration tool |
smbclient | SMB print spooler |
smbprint | SMB print shell script |
smbspool | SMB printer spooler |
thinkjettopbm | Portable bitmap to ThinkJet printer conversion utility |
Most Linux systems use PostScript as the default document format for printing. Fedora uses the gs command along with CUPS to manage local and remote print jobs and the type of data transferred during a print job. The gs command is used to translate the document stream into a format accepted by the destination printer (which most likely uses HPCL).
You can use the Ghostscript interpreter gs to display its built-in printer devices by using the gs interpreter with its --help command-line option like this:
# gs --help
Fedora includes graphical clients you can use to view many different types of documents. For example, to display PostScript documents (including compressed PostScript documents) or PostScript images, use the gv client. To display Portable Document Format (PDF) documents, you can use gv or the xpdf client.
The gs command outputs many lines of help text on command-line usage and then lists built-in printer and graphics devices. Another way to get this information is to start gs and then use the devicenames == command like this:
# gs
GPL Ghostscript 8.60 (2007-08-01)
Copyright (C) 2007 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
...Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PostScriptLevel3 PDF
Default output device: display
Available devices:
alc1900 alc2000 alc4000 alc4100 alc8500 alc8600 alc9100 ap3250 appledmp
atx23 atx24 atx38 bbox bit bitcmyk bitrgb bj10e bj10v bj10vh bj200 bjc600
bjc800 bjc880j bjccmyk bjccolor bjcgray bjcmono bmp16 bmp16m bmp256
bmp32b bmpa16 bmpa16m bmpa256 bmpa32b bmpamono bmpasep1 bmpasep8 bmpgray
