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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How to limit printer settings for networked CUPS printer?
We have a CUPS based color laser printer. Our colleagues often tweak their print settings, resulting in non optimal configurations. E.g. they change the color reproduction so that even black and white text will be printed in full CMYK. This can be…
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Allowing machines other than localhost access to CUPS?
In relation to this question on printing, I have found that I cannot administer the CUPS instance from a different machine. Is it possible that CUPS is configured to accept jobs only from the local machine, also? Is there a way to configure CUPS…
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Cups printing and setting CPI LPI
We are currently moving over from Sco to Redhat and we have been told to install CUPS for printing.
We do only text printing invoices reports etc.
How do I change the settings on my printers CPI LPI etc?
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page limits on Mac printer
How can I set limits on the number of pages which can be printed by a user on Mac OS, or the Server?
We have two printers on an all mac network. There are several Mac servers on the network and regular clients too. Currently the clients just send to…
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Is there a way to customise PPD distribution of printer drivers effectively with Mac Os X server?
we have two network printers shared via our 10.5.8 Mac Os Server machine. They have drivers provided by the manufacturer that allow job logging (printing with a print code).
I've installed said drivers on the server, but when we distribute the…
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Simple and elegant solution for hooking HP printers on network
I have server connected to LAN (running cups), but it's not in the same room as HP printers. I have FPS-3003, but somehow I never managed to bind CUPS to it's supported protocols.
I was thinking of buying cheap SOHO router and run cups on it. Any…
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How can I print to a Lexmark X3550 printer using Ubuntu?
I have a Lexmark X3550 printer and a computer running Ubuntu. Is there any hope in being able to print to this particular printer using Ubuntu? I am not familiar with CUPS. Is this an option?
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Avahi & cups on FreeBSD
I set up cups and avahi on FreeBSD 8.0. However cups printer does not shows in avahi-browse -a on client (other things like ssh server are shown). Additionally if I try to run avahi-browse -a on server it does not succeed:
# avahi-browse -a
Failed…
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What linux packages do I to install on my server to print to a remote print server?
I'm setting up Ubuntu 10.04 (server install) as a print client.
I already have a working Ubuntu print server set up using CUPS, also running 10.04.
What packages do I need to install to be able to print from the command line on my client to my print…
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Issues configuring CUPS print server for Ubuntu Server 9.10
I have a 9.10 Ubuntu Server installed and I want to make it a print server and am trying to get access to the cups browser admin page from a windows client machine. I installed cups:
sudo apt-get install cups
then I edited the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf…
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How to specify ppd when adding CUPS printer
On client's Oracle 7 server, I have added printers to cups using the cli. I use this command line for adding:
lpadmin -p Warehouse3Printer -v smb://printer:printer@172.16.192.2/HPLaser -P ./Downloads/HP-LaserJet_P2014n.ppd
Client has many printers…
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remove network discovered printers in cups web page
I am trying to remove network discovered from cups webpages. I am working on a cloud print service and run a raspbian bulleyes. I will have to deploy my system to customers and I want to remove every printer discovery. Printers will only have a…
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What is the current state of the art way to share printers from Linux with Windows clients
TLDR: What driver should I use in Windows (10/11) to connect to CUPS? Alternatively: What is a better way to print from Windows clients to a Linux server?
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I'm currently having an Ubuntu 18.04 samba domain member (obviosly to be upgraded) with…
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How do I edit a PPD file for CUPS?
I have a networked printer (Canon iP8720) and it mostly works just fine out of the box with CUPS on Kubuntu 22.10. However the printer is capable of borderless printing, higher resolution than the 600dpi it's presently limited to, and a few other…
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The printer edits are cut off at the top and bottom after upgrade cups to 2.2.6 with Postscript source
The background, we're upgrading a technical platform for our ERP that sends postscript editions in A4.
Our old cups --> Redhat 6.1 / Cups 1.4.2 / Foomatic 4.0.4
New platform --> OL 8.7 / Cups 2.2.6 / Foomatic 4.0.12
We use the same driver for all…
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