The CUPS Printing System (Linux Journal)

[Posted October 21, 2005 by cook]

Alan Ward has written an introductory article on CUPS in a Linux Journal article. "CUPS is what its name says: a common UNIX printing system. It is aimed at providing a common printing interface across a local network, masking differences among the printing systems on each computer. I am not sure that such a system is needed in a pure Linux environment, where the standard Berkely LPD provides this functionality, but CUPS does provide interactivity with SMB and Windows printers. CUPS also allows dynamic printer detection and grouping."

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