# system-config-printer

Tim Waugh

    twaugh@redhat.com

## Man pages

system-config-printer
25 Apr 2013
system-config-printer 1
system-config-printer configure a CUPS server
`system-config-printer` --show-jobs printer --debug --help

#### Description

`system-config-printer` configures a CUPS server. It uses the CUPS API (bound to Python with pycups) to do this. The communication with the server is performed using IPP. As a result, it is equally able to configure a remote CUPS server as a local one.

#### Options

`--help`

  Display a short usage message.

`--show-jobs printer`

  Show the named print queue.

`--debug`

  Enable debugging output.

system-config-printer
24 Nov 2010
system-config-printer-applet 1
system-config-printer-applet print job manager
`system-config-printer-applet` --help --version --debug

#### Description

`system-config-printer-applet` is a print job manager for CUPS. Normally it will display a printer icon in the notification area, greyed out when there are no print jobs for the current user. Clicking on the icon displays a simple print job manager for cancelling or reprinting jobs.

To save memory, the applet waits first of all until the user has printed a job before putting the icon in the notification area. To invoke the print job manager before a job has been printed, run the applet with the `--no-tray-icon` option: a desktop file is provided for this, so that it should appear in the system menu.

As well as displaying a printer icon in the notification area, the applet also provides a D-BUS server for the com.redhat.PrintDriverSelection interface, to help configure a new printer when it is plugged in.

#### Options

`--help`

  Display a short usage message.

`--version`

  Display the version of the applet.

`--debug`

  Show debugging information.