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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 remote print queues

In my network, there are multiple printers over many locations, all connected to a single CUPS server via whatever protocols they require. Client machines on the network need to print to the printers near them, segregated by location, but each…
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Connect to cups printer service from windows server 2008

From windows server 2003 I can easily add a cups printer service from another host: I tried the same on a windows server 2008 machine, but I did not succeed to add this kind of http printer addresses there, although the address is reachable in the…
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How Do I Enable CUPS Browsing Across A Network?

I have a CUPS server with two print queues defined. Once this was defined, all the CUPS clients on the same subnet could see the two print queues automatically, no problem. Now I have a collection of machines on a separate subnet, reachable from…
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Sharing printer from CUPS to CUPS, getting state stopped 'Filter failed'

I'm trying to share a Epson TM-T20II connected to my computer (the server) via USB. It's working correctly at my computer using the drivers "EPSON TM BA Thermal". Now in the other computer (the client) I add the shared printer using the following…
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Redirect new print jobs to another queue in CUPS

We're running CUPS with about 10 different printers, and recently one of them started to jam. While we wait for tech support to bless us with a repair, is there a way to redirect all jobs from say Printer 1 to just print to Printer 2? I know that I…
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backend PDF printer is always showing ideal status

I am trying to implement a backend to create a PDF printer using cups in freebsd. So far i am successful in creating a printer using a backend but the printer status is always idle and and not accepting any print jobs at all. here is what i did so…
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CUPS keeps silently UNsharing my printers - why?

I'm in a world of hurt at the moment with regard to printing, but I've discovered one ultra-specific problem that seems to be the root of all my other problems. CUPS is silently unsharing my printers. I stop CUPS, manually change…
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Print directly to CUPS server from non-local clients (Ubuntu 14.04)

I set up a CUPS server with a few queues and printing from local clients (the CUPS test page and Samba) seems to work just fine. It seems like the CUPS server is denying non-local clients though: 130.127.48.70 - - [03/Jun/2014:14:29:19 -0400] "POST…
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get lp job status using lpstat

In ubuntu, I'd like to get the status of a print job using the command line. When I send a job to the printer using lp, i can see the status of the print job in the taskbar applet. For instance, I see a job that says "Pending" when I send a job to…
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Vagrant and cups port forwarding not working. Not accessible

I'm working with vagrant and I'm trying to use it as a printing server. I installed cups. Internally everything works just fine. I can even make a quick curl to my localhost:631 (cups port inside my vagrant) and there's everything. The thing is I…
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CUPS: "Too many open files" message

I have a small Linux server (Ubuntu Server, 12.04 LTS) which is serving as a print release server. Essentially, I have defined a CUPS printer, and added Option job-hold-until indefinite to the entry in printers.conf so guests to the library can pay…
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Printer recognized but not printing. CUPS

I'm using a HP 1000 J110 connected to a server which I access via ssh. I use lsusb and it appears there. Then, I Pasted the PPD on the /etc/cups/ppd/ folder... Is the ppd my pc uses to print when attached directly to the PC. I Use lpstat -p and it…
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CUPS-LPD print server scalability

So the manpage for cups-lpd says "large configurations" are a bad idea, but does not elaborate. Does anyone have any experience with using this tool at scale and how it copes? I'm looking at around 100 printers receiving 3,000 jobs/hour (total, not…
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cups not printing classification

Our print server is using cups, and it is set to use a classification but the classification is not appearing on the pages. The banner prints and all config files look to be okay (printers.conf, cupsd.conf, client.conf) and lpoptions shows the…
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Printing reports in CUPS

how can i get detailed printing reports from the CUPS printing server? for example, the user sending the job, IP address, especially number of pages sent to printer
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