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CUPS stands for Common Unix Printing System. It has been in use by major Linux distributions for user-friendly printing services for about a decade and was purchased by Apple Inc in 2007 when it was purchased from Michael Sweet. CUPS was notable in providing a web-based administrative interface to the Linux printing system and was considered a vast improvement over the old lpadmin CLI tools of the time.

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CUPS print server on Raspberry Pi Zero W: usb issue?

I am trying to setup a print server with a Raspbian installed on a Raspberry PI Zero W. The printer, connected via USB, is a mfp Samsung SCX-3400. I have setup everything and i can print, but the printing time (between launch of the print on the…
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Kyocera M8124cidn - not printing and stuck in queue

I have a Kyocera M8124cidn. On a CentOS 6 machine, I added the printer with this command: lpadmin -p oakholserv2 -o printer-error-policy=retry-current-job -E -v lpd://oakholserv2/raw?timeout=10 However, the formatting is incorrect when in prints…
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CentOS print jobs take a long time to print but works normal from Windows

I have a printer that prints fine from the Windows machine. When jobs are sent from the CentOS (CentOS 6.9) machine, it takes around 20 minutes to print the job. The CentOS machine prints fine to other printer but takes a very long time for this…
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Configure CUPS to use given print queue

Arrived at a host institution for an extended stay. Connected my Linux PC to their "guest network". Was told that I may use their printers through queue "printserv.xxx.yy". How to set up my PC to use the printers exposed by that queue? Tried ping…
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Printer online and enabled - receives job but doesn't print

I have setup a printer with the command lpadmin -p printername -o printer-error-policy=retry-current-job -E -v lpd://printername/RAW?timeout=10. The printer is detected and enabled. However, when I do a test print with the command lp -d svstkctl1…
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CUPS: How to set staples for a printer?

I don't find the option into the CUPS web for the options of the printer. Is it possible from the command line? Thanks in advance!!
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Cups entity too large on docker

I need to use cups and cups-pdf in a docker container. I use Debian as base image and I install cups and printer-driver-cups-pdf. When I try to install the "pdf printer" I have the error Request Entity Too large Nothing in logs lpadmin -p cups-pdf…
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Detect printer in VPN client

The problem is based on a simple restriction: The server which holds the business logic is not connected with the printer in the same network. The printer is located in another network which does not have the possibility to expose a public IP. The…
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CUPS-PDF fails with [STATUS] PDF creation failed

Hello I'm trying to set up CUPS-PDF on a new server (Centos 7) but don't get it working. I see the jobs reported. Also directories are being created according to conf file. But there are no pdf created and the log file shows for each job…
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How does one wire CUPS to accept print jobs via TCP/IP at 9100 and pass through to pdf-cups?

OS FreeBSD-12.1 CUPS-2.3.3 My goal is to get CUPS to listen for TCP/IP connections on 9100, or any arbitrary ip address and tcp port for that matter, passing the incoming RAW spool file to the cups-pdf filter. After which a cron job or listener…
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CUPS - Network printer - Connection error: Permission denied, The printer is not responding

I'm trying to troubleshoot a printing issue, but first I need to describe my environment (it's a bit non-standard). I have a HP 1102 USB printer, connected to a Ubuntu 20.04 system which runs CUPS and shares the printer to other systems in the LAN.…
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CUPS Processing - "Waiting for printer to become available."

I'm attempting to get Brother HL-L2301-D printer running under Gentoo. I've downloaded the RPM and installed it under Gentoo. The device is detected and I've set up a udev rule to make it available at /dev/usb/lp0, although it now appears there…
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CUPS client not working with docker container name

CUPS client cannot print when providing the CUPS server as container name, while it works fine with the container IP: Sample docker-compose.yml: version: '3.7' services: client: container_name: cups_client image: cups_client server: …
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CUPS filter failed error

I installed CUPS and added my printer but if I print anything I see always "filter failed" error. Could you please check what is wrong? E [04/Jan/2019:19:50:40 +0000] [Job 13] Unable to open raster stream - : Broken pipe E [04/Jan/2019:19:50:44…
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