#9201 - Setting Up a Printer
This document will provide information necessary for the installation and configuration of your printer with WordPerfect® on the Linux® and UNIX platforms.
This document will also be useful for troubleshooting printing problems with existing printers. The installation of a "compatible" printer will indicate whether or not the current printer has compatibility issues or is not properly installed and configured.
Troubleshooting
First decide whether you would like to set up a personal printer or a system printer. A system printer can be accessed by all the users, but only the Root as administrator can modify the printer in any way. A personal printer will show only for the user that installed it, and only that user will be able to do any modifications to it.
The steps for setting up a printer are the same for system and personal printers, with one exception: if it is to be a system printer, you must login as Root and enter WordPerfect with the adm option.
For Corel® WordPerfect® 7 or 8 character versions or WordPerfect® 5.2+, use the following steps:
- Print
- Select
- (2) Additional Printers
- (N) Name Search
- Highlight the printer.
- (1) Select
- Press ENTER to accept the .prs file.
- Press ENTER through the Helps and Hints.
- (2) Destination
- (3) Type
- (2) LP, LPR or Aix (depends on the operating system being used)
- (1) Select
- Add -oraw if on LP.
For Corel® WordPerfect® 7 or 8 GUI or WordPerfect® 6.0 use the following steps:
- Click Print.
- Click Select.
- Click the Printer Create/Edit button.
- Click the Add button.
- Scroll through the list and click the desired printer.
- Click OK.
- Click OK.
- With the printer highlighted, click the Setup button.
- Click the Destination button.
- Add any spooler options.
- Click OK.
For WordPerfect® 5.1, use the following steps:
- Print
- (2) Additional Printers
- (N) Name Search
- Highlight the printer.
- (1) Select
- Press ENTER to accept the .prs file.
- Press ENTER through the Helps and Hints.
- (2) Port
- (3) Define Port
- (1) Create
- Enter a unique name.
- (2) Output type
- Select the desired output type.
- Spool command will be created.
- (8) Save
- Press ENTER.
- (0) Exit
- (0) Exit
Installing a New Printer
In some cases you may need to add a printer that may not have been needed with the original installation or that was not available at the time of the installation.
If you just need to add a printer that was available at the time of the installation but was not installed, use the following steps:
- Mount the CD on the system (refer to the operating system guide for specific instructions on doing this)
- Enter the following command:
cd /<path to wpbin>/wpbin
./wpinstall -p
Follow the instructions and prompts. The printer will then be installed to the shlib10 directory and you should be able to follow the steps listed to set up the printer.
If you have a new printer that was not available at the time of the installation, you will need to download the .prs file from Corels Web site and then follow these steps:
- Go to Corels Web site at ftp.corel.com/pub/printdrivers
- Select option wp5x if character-based and option wp6x if GUI
- Select the index.txt file to locate the desired printer and find out which printer driver is needed, then go back to the previous screen to download the file
Note: These are DOS printer drivers, however WordPerfect printer drivers are compatible across all platforms.
The driver will need to be downloaded onto a DOS or Windows® machine and then ftped across to the Linux/UNIX platform, where it should be placed in the shlib10 (or shlib for WP 5.1) directory.
Important: When transferring drivers over to the UNIX platform, they will need to be in a format that WordPerfect will recognize or they will not show up in the printer list.
- Character drivers should be all in lower case and should be given a .all ending
- GUI drivers names should be in the following format:
wp60(21trs)(2#s).us.all
After the driver has been downloaded, follow the steps listed above for setting up the printer.