Printer setup in Fedora Core 6

Printing with FC6 is really easy. Here's how I setup my HP PSC 500 Officejet:

1. Switch on your printer before starting your PC
   
2. Log in as root
   
3. Go to System > Administration > Printing
4. Click on New Printer
5. Printer Name: HP_PSC_500
6. Description: HP PSC 500
7. Location: Next to monitor
8. In Select Connection dialog, select HP PSC 500 LPT parport0 HPLIP
9. In Select Printer From Database option, select HP
10. Under Models select PSC 500
11. Once the printer is installed, the Printer Configuration dialog will be shown
12. Select Local Printers > HP_PSC_500
13. Click on Make default printer
14. Under Printer Options, select Page size as A4
15. Select Print test page under the Settings tab
    
16. If the page is printed correctly, no reason to worry!
    
17. Click on Apply and close the Printer Configuration dialog

The printer is setup. Although this guide is highly specific, I hope you have understood the basic steps in setting up a printer on Linux. You can follow the same steps (not literally) to setup your printers as well. A thing to note is that you should never be stuck with an old OS and a latest printer model, as that will mean the absence of the printer definition in the OS database. Ofcourse, there would be a workaround, but I haven't tried it out.