Title CUPS administrative guide : a practical tutorial to installing, managing, and securing this powerful printing system / Ankur Shah.

Descript 1 online resource (vii, 225 pages) : illustrations. Series From technologies to solutions From technologies to solutions. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary "The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is software that allows a computer to act as a print server, receiving print jobs from client computers, managing them, and sending them to the appropriate printer. It consists of a print spooler and scheduler, filters to convert print jobs to the format required by each printer, and a backend system to send the data to the chosen printer from client applications. Since every printer manufacturer does things differently, printing can be very complicated, and has always been a hard issue in the UNIX world for this reason. By providing a portable, modular printing layer, CUPS brings printing for UNIX into the modern age. It applies open standards for network printing through the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) and uses platform-independent drivers (Postscript Printer Definition, PPD) to print. Today, CUPS is the default printing system for a large number of Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) and UNIX-based operating systems"--Resource description page. Contents Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgement; About the Reviewer; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Overview of the CUPS Features; History of Printing in UNIX; Printing with Personal Computers; Evolution of CUPS as a Printing System; Architecture of CUPS; Network Printing; CUPS Features; Support for Internet Printing Protocol (IPP); Compatibility with Other Print Systems; Support for Web Interface; Modular Architecture; Support of Postscript Printer Description Drivers (PPDs) in CUPS; Summary; Chapter 2: Building and Installing CUPS; Downloading Source Code Compiling CUPSInstalling the Software; Installing a Binary Distribution; Building RPMs; Creating Binary Distribution with EPM; Installing a Portable Distribution; Installing an RPM Distribution; Installing CUPS from a Debian Distribution; Subversion Access; Compiling from Subversion; Running the Software; Installing CUPS Using the Package Manager on Linux; Testing CUPS; Summary; Chapter 3: Printer Management; Printer Drivers; PostScript Printer Description (PPD) Drivers; Non-PostScript Printers; Ghostscript Built-In; Filter; CUPS Raster; Ink Jet Server (IJS) Plug-in; Uniprint; CUPS DDK Foomatic-RIPInstalling PPD; Managing Printer through the Command Line; Basic Command for Adding the Printer; Managing Printers from the Command-Line; Deleting Printers; Setting the Default Printer; Starting and Stopping Printers; Accepting and Rejecting Print Jobs; Checking Printer Status; Setting Quotas on a Printer; Restricting User Access to a Printer; Printing Banner Pages; Some More Printer and CUPS-Specific Commands; Managing Print Jobs through Command Line; Submitting Files for Printing; Checking the Status of Print Jobs; Choosing a Printer; Setting Printer Options Printing the Output of a ProgramPrinting Multiple Copies; Checking the Printer Status; Canceling a Print Job; Moving a Print Job; Managing Printers using the CUPS Web Interface; Administration; Adding a New Printer; Managing Jobs; Find New Printers; Summary; Chapter 4: Managing Multiple Printers at a Time; Configuring Printer Classes; Features and Advantages; Implicit Class; Managing Printer Classes Through Command-Line; Adding a Printer to a Class; Removing a Printer from a Class; Removing a Class; Managing Printer Classes Through CUPS Web Interface; Adding a New Printer Class; Stop Class Reject JobsUnpublished Printer; Cancel All Jobs; Delete Class; Modifying a Class; Setting up Printer Options for Class; Printing a Test Page for a Printer Class; Setting a Printer Class as Default; Set Allowed Users; Nested Printer Classes; Summary; Chapter 5: CUPS Server Management; System Requirement; Configuration Files; Classes Directives; Accepting; Printer; Class; DefaultClass; AllowUser; DenyUser; Info; Location; JobSheets; KLimit; PageLimit; QuotaPeriod; State; StateMessage; Client Directives; ServerName; Encryption; Server Directives; Editing the cupsd.conf File Via the Web Interface Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject UNIX (Computer file) UNIX (Computer file) UNIX (Computer file) (OCoLC)fst01365395 Computer printers -- Software. Printing -- Software. COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- Peripherals. Computer printers -- Software. Printing -- Software. Computer printers. (OCoLC)fst00872375 Printing. (OCoLC)fst01076612 Alt Title Common UNIX Printing System administrative guide ISBN 9781847192592 (electronic bk.) 1847192599 (electronic bk.) 1847192580 9781847192585 9781847192585