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Chapter 5. Printing

Chapter 5. Printing

Working in the Macintosh environment, you're used to a simple and elegant printer interface, particularly in OS X, where Print Center makes it a breeze to add new printers and configure your existing printers. The Unix environment has never had a printing interface that even comes close in usability, and while the standard print command in Unix is lpr, getting it to work on OS X involves reconfiguring your system and a number of tricky system administration tasks best avoided if you're not a Unix expert.

If you do want to try, see Configuring Your Printer at the end of this chapter for some suggestions on how to proceed.



  

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