LPR Issue after installing Dell Driver for Printer

The following Example has been given on the installation of the Dell Driver for the Printer Type DELL LASER MFP 1815DN.

Follow the following steps to install the Dell Driver for Printer.

1.Download the Driver from the following URL:-
http://support.dell.com/support/downloa ... tid=&impid

2. Untar with the following command:-

#tar xvzf Dell1815dn_Linux_DriverA02.tar.gz
3. Enter to the extracted Directory.
#cd cdroot

4. Run the following binary file. (it should be run in GUI Env)
#./autorun

5. The above run will install the Dell driver..

6. You will find the newly installed drivers and binaries in the following location.
/opt/DELL/mfp

7. The most important configuration changed from the above installation from the default one is as follow:-

The Default lpr binary location and link
#which lpr
/usr/bin/lpr

#ls -d /usr/bin/lpr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Dec 23 21:38 lpr -> /etc/alternatives/print

#ls -ld /etc/alternatives/print
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 May 20 2007 /etc/alternatives/print -> /usr/bin/lpr.cups

#ls -ld /usr/bin/lpr.cups
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9852 Apr 12 2006 /usr/bin/lpr.cups

The automatic change happen after installing the Dell Driver.
#ls -ld /usr/bin/lpr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 22 22:05 lpr -> /opt/DELL/mfp/bin/slpr

Change the above lpr link from /opt/DELL/mfp/bin/slpr to Default location /etc/alternatives/print or /usr/bin/lpr.cups

8. Give a test page using lpr commad as follow:-
lpr -P
#lpr -pLHPRT136 test.page

9.Verify with the DBAs that the above installation working fine and not effecting on the other printers.

10. Once through configure the same with the Production Servers.