Chapter 25: Print Servers
Although printer installation is almost automatic on most Linux distributions, it helps to understand the underlying process. Once treated as devices attached to a system directly, printers are now treated as network resources managed by print servers. In the case of a single printer attached directly to a system, the networking features become transparent and the printer appears as just one more device. On the other hand, you could easily make use of a print server's networking capability to let several systems use the same printer. You can find out more information about printing in Linux at www.linuxprinting.org.