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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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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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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Fedora 35 cups-browsed doesn't completely start HP 8600
Linux Fedora FC 35, on a local WiFi net with an HP 8600 inkjet printer.
Printer queue gets set up, but goes offline for not having a host.
Rather than hardcoding this printer (named in its own onboard config and in my cups-browsed.conf Cluster…
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How can I get Duralabel printer driver working on Ubuntu 22.04?
We use Duralabel printers from Graphic Products for some of our labeling which works fine on Windows workstations however is unsupported for Linux. Their tech support has provided a PPD driver and installer script however the print jobs stop without…
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libusb and gutenprint in Ubuntu Jammy
I have freshly installed Ubuntu Jammy with CUPS and printer-driver-gutenprint and am having problems with my USB printer. My printer is not recognised in CUPS.
When I uninstall the printer-driver-gutenprint package, CUPS finds the USB printer, but…
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