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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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Why can't I print from Windows on CUPS from a single application?

I've set up a Fedora 10 server and I want to print to an attached printer from three Windows Vista and two XP workstations. After much manual reading I got this situation: All workstations can print One workstation can print from all but one…
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Know the number of pages printed from cups printing

I am using the CUPS print server on a MAC to manage printing, I would like to know the number of pages that are printed by any user for any job, however the column for pages writes unknown for each printing job. How can I go about this
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What LPR arguments do I need to print a 1400x800 pixel image on a 4x6 label?

This is driving me nuts. UPS sends our system a 1400x800 GIF image of a shipping label, which is supposed to fit nicely on a 4x6 page. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the command line options right to make it happen. We're using an Eltron/Zebra…
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Setting request-user on IPP printer in CUPS

I need to send a request to CUPS server with the specific request-user parameter - remote_user instead of local_user. How should I set the local CUPS server?
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Password protect a printer?

A teacher at one of the schools I work for asked if, instead of having students send them files that are to be printed off in colour -- given that students aren't allowed to use the colour printer but staff can -- would it be possible to add the…
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CUPS printing via socket very slow

I don't find anything suitable on this topic: we have a Solaris server, running CSW CUPS and several network printers. Printing using LPD is fast, but when we try socket or SMB, it is painfully slow (<1 sec vs. 30 seconds for a small job). We…
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Print from Linux to Windows networked printer

I want to print from a Debian (Lenny) workstation to a Windows networked printer. I'm not even sure what type of Windows network this is. Our tech-support is friendly but doesn't want to get involved with supporting Linux. I need to use it for a…
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CUPS - how to list all detected printers from command line (Linux)

In the CUPS web interface, when adding a printer, the interface displays all detected printers, both local and networked, and the user can pick which one they want to add to CUPS. How can I get this list from the command line? Thank you.
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Limit CUPS printer discovery from multiple interfaces

ServerFault! Coming here right from StackOverflow :) Here is the problem: I have a Xubuntu PC that has two physical network interfaces. One of them is for purposes of my working room, another is to connect to other rooms in a building. CUPS detects…
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Printing oversized PDF to HP printer

I am using an HP E60055 laserjet printer and using Red Hat Linux Cups version 1.6 to print to it. Previously using a Samsung SCX-483x - with which I had no problems with the default settings. When I print line-by-line reports the printer's default…
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Text not properly centered on label (CUPS + Zebra Gk420)

I have added a custom format to /etc/cups/ppd/GK420.ppd in order to match my 70x50mm labels. *OpenUI *PageSize/Media Size: PickOne *OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageSize *DefaultPageSize: w198h141 *PageSize w198h141/70x50mm: "<
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Force CUPS print server to fit-to-page if job is not A4

I've setup a CUPS print server on Debian Stretch and I need a way to modify print jobs that don't use A4 page size. I have clients (iOS) that cannot set the paper size and will send for example a PDF that is in letter size to the print server which…
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macOS will not print to an LPR printer on different subnet

We have a fairly extensive campus network consisting of multiple subnets connected by a core router. Everything has been working fine for years, but recently I have a number of macosx clients that refuse to print to a network printer (LPR) on a…
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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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cups fails to print files with very long paths

I got Debian 8 with CUPS 1.7.5 and HP LaserJet P2055D. Printing is OK, except that I can't print files, located on my network server with long nested paths. I.e. I can print file, located in \server\share\file.doc, but can't print same file located…
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