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A Printer is a peripheral which produces a text or graphics of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies.

Printers are routinely classified by the printer technology they employ; numerous such technologies have been developed over the years.

Based on the Print quality printers are characterized as follows,

  • Toner-based printers
  • Liquid inkjet printers
  • Solid ink printers
  • Dye-sublimation printers
  • Inkless printers

Source: Wikipedia (Printer)

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Change CUPS printer name

successfully installed my cups printer Ubuntu18.4. When i click the add printer icon in the device side it shows name as "CUPS-BRF-Printer".. I would like to change this name. How to change the default name.. How to change it?
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php handling POS printer and cashdrawer

i have been googling around wether PHP can handle to print a receipt and kick the cash drawer through a web server? i read about PHP-GTK2, but it seems cant handle trhough a web server, only for desktop use or standalong apps. is there anyway or…
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Delphi Win32 Service "Printer Selected is not valid" error on 2008 64bit standard server

I have developed a simple win 32 service in delphi 7 which performs some print operations. All works fine on our XP machines, but fails on the target Windows 2008 standard server. When I put a try except block around the print statement, it results…
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Unable to Compile Hplip-3.10.9

I have all the required dependencies for the compile. Running ./configure finishes without errors. But after running make, it says: "In file included from prnt/hpcups/HPCupsFilter.h:34, from…
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Can we list a virtual printer in available printers without writing a driver for it

I want a virtual printer to be listed under available printers when I do a print from any application, this virtual printer would send the print data to my code for some tweaking. And I believe I need not write a new driver for this as Microsoft…
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PageSettings keep getting modifed unexpectedly

It seems that you can persist in a settings file PrinterSettings and also PageSettings, they are Serializable etc. Great! Everything was going OK until I tried to persist my PageSettings and the margins. Everytime I change the margins, save the…
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Get all available printers in OS X using Python

Currently I am doing some tests with printers in Python, what I am trying to do is to list all the printers available. Right now I am using PyCups library which exposes several useful APIs in the Connection class. Among these there's also…
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Direct print from android application programmatically

I am planning to develop android application that send data directly to printer. I wonder if there is any possible way to achieve it by "one click" from android app. It's ok to set the printer at very first time, but I don't want to confirm printing…
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Printer.Printers list does not contain some redirected printers

Given a connection to a terminal server, when using a test program written in Delphi XE2, the list of printer names in the Printer.Printers collection is different from the list of printers shown when using a TPrintDialog. Some of the redirected…
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How can I locate all the network printers in the enterprise?

When I go to Printers and Faxes dialog, I can click the Add a printer link, select Network Printer, then Find a printer in the directory. From there I get a dialog box which lets me find ALL printers in the enterprise. I need to find all the…
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Generating printer shortcuts from list

I am trying to generate a shortcut for every printer I have on a print server. The idea is to be able to email these shortcuts to people and when they click on them, it automatically installs that printer for them. I've populated an array from a…
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How to get the model number of any connected printer in vb .net

As the question states, I need to find the model number of a printer using vb dotNet. Currently have been using the EnumPrinters API and checking the driver name, however certain printers are supported by the same named driver (ie the driver…
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SystemError: E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages

I have Ubuntu 32 bit running on HP Pavilion. Today I brought EPSON Artisan 725 printer, I connected the usb cable to the printer. Driver utility popped up. It gave to two options for driver. I choose the recommended one. It asked me for password…
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Determining Postscript printing support

I've been trying to determine whether a printer is capable of printing a Postscript (.ps) file. Using the following method, I've attempted to determine whether a printer can print the Postscript with the following code: private void findPrinters(…
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Creating a C# application to configure printer page settings

I am looking to deploy a c# application at my workplace which defines the default paper size. Nothing too special. It works by calling windows.win32 and using the registry class to write to the registry. Despite my best efforts, I have been unable…
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