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Printing configuration and network printing is a broad topic requiring knowledge and experience with both hardware, networking, and system administration. For more detailed information about deploying printer services in your environments, refer to following resources.
lpadmin man page — Configure Red Hat Linux print services with this utility.
smb.conf man page — Configure printer sharing using SMB/CIFS with this configuration file.
/usr/share/doc/cups-<version> — The document collection for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS), an Internet Printing Protocol-compliant system for UNIX and Linux.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/printer.html — General definition of printers and descriptions of printer types.
http://www.linuxprinting.org — A database of documents about printing, along with a database of nearly 1000 printers compatible with Linux printing facilities.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html — The Linux Printing-HOWTO from the Linux Documentation Project.
Network Printing by Matthew Gast and Todd Radermacher; O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. — Comprehensive information on using Linux as a print server in heterogeneous environments.
The Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide and Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide by Red Hat both cover networking and printing topics and are good sources of information if you run into any issues.