Printing on a USB printer

If you've attached a USB printer to your machine and started the USB stack and devu-prn as described in "USB devices" in the Connecting Hardware chapter, you need to start an instance of spooler to manage it.

To set up your USB printer, do the following:

1. Create /usr/spool/output/device, where device is the device that devu-prn created for the printer (e.g., usbpar0).
2. Start spooler, specifying the printer's device. For example:

   spooler -d /dev/usbpar0
     

   Your printer should now appear in /dev/printers.