Before you start, you should make a note of the details of your printer and a suitable printer driver. The following two sections explain what you need to know.
You will need to know the following information:
Make and model of your printer
The port used by your printer. Most printers are connected to the parallel port LPT1 (lp0 in Linux). If it is a serial printer, it is usually connected to COM1 (ttyS0) or COM2 (ttyS1).
You will need to find out the name of a suitable printer driver. You can find out which drivers are available on your system later on from within Apsfilter. You can also make a guess and use trial-and-error to find a driver that works. However, the hard work has already been done, and there is a Linux printer database on the web. You can find it at http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi. Using this database I found that the driver I needed for a BJC-4200 printer was the bjc600. You can also download printer drivers that may not be included in your distribution.
You are now ready to install the Apsfilter software.