Talk:CUPS

message: I'm going to start my baseline revision using this article as it's source. See CUPS/Proposed baseline. - Ta bu shi da yu 01:00, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baseline revision 

message: 1.) CUPS 1.0 was released in the fall of 1999.  It was in alpha and beta for almost two years prior to this release.  
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/10/01/1632200.shtml
Many don't know that when it was in alpha, that we tried the LPD route but found many road blocks of trying to implement a common system that would work on *all* platforms.  The main problem was that each vendor's implementation of the printing system was too different from each other.   We turned quickly to the standard, IPP to rectify this issue.
When it was in beta:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-09-014-10-NW-SM
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-11-018-10-NW-SM
3.) Many Linux vendors have adopted CUPS as either their primary or secondary printing system.
4.) Apple Computers has adopted CUPS as their printing system.
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L68+I10+T+P1+Qapple
5.) Developed in-house by the company, Easy Software Products.  Michael Sweet and Andrew Senft are co-owners of the company.
- Andrew Senft
:Great to know! Thanks Andew, when I get the chance I'll update the article :-) Ta bu shi da yu 21:01, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some history notes 

message: CUPS 1.2 has been released. Someone familiar with CUPS could update this page with the relevant features of the new release, and take new screenshots. Eventually, I'll do this work but I'll need some time to do research on this subject. GhePeU 22:15, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: CUPS 1.2

message: I'm missing a note on how to do all the above (and more ink/printer management related items), that you
can usually find in a windows driver. My printer blinks "ink", I changed the cartridge and it still blinks.
I have no idea what is wrong. Does anyone know more about this, please? THANKS -- Michael Janich 06:02, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ink management: clean nozzles, how much ink left, which cartridge is empty...

message: This is a nice resource, but it could do with some stylistic cleanup work. In particular, work needs to be done in ensuring that terms are explained (and linked) clearly and on one occasion only. There's quite a lot of redefinition and overlinkage. The section on UIs is also a bit long, and I'm not sure we need screenshots of every distro-brewed front end. Chris Cunningham 11:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm... the UI section could probably be refactored. However, where is the redefinition and overlinkage? I wrote the article, so I can't see it - but probably only because I'm too close to it. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:29, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical info, too many sub-headers 

message: (2007-02-21) Just to let you know.  The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors.  I'm hoping this will attract some contributors to this important article.  It will remain on the portal for a week or so.  The previous selected article was FOSDEM. Gronky 04:30, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The selected article box has been updated again, CUPS has been superceded by OpenSolaris. Gronky 15:35, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  On [[Portal:Free software]], CUPS is currently the selected article 

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It might be a good idea to expand the references in some sections, where there are hardly or no inline citations. There are some red links in the article too, that should be removed. All in all, sufficient for GA status. Martijn Hoekstra 13:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Pass 

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replies: text: Fixed. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:10, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Fedora-CUPS-gui.png

message: I would suggest that all network based software show the ports:
input/listen port: 515
control/http port: 631
output port:  not cited in article
This could be added to all article on network software for consistency.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.131.23.218 (talk) 16:26, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Network Software and ports 

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thread_title: Automatic addition of "class=GA"

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message: While the diagram shows how complex the filter system is and there is a lot of text devoted to it,
I still think that something is missing concerning the spooler itself. Under System V you can write
your own filter and use the spooler to serialize access to devices. It seems that you can do that in CUPS
but there is no mention to the method to avoid the filtering. Consider the lot of applications which
generate files in PCL5 or in PostScript and therefore need no filtering but the ability to send the files
to some printer. There are even printers which can process directly PDF files. There must be a method
to configure the system in a way that allows sending the file directly to the printer if the selected printer
supports that.
Consider as well the possibility to sending files to some device (a modem to send sms?) in which you
need perhaps to build a simple filter which deals with the device.
--Mcovas (talk) 10:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filters in CUPS 

message: Those editors who use CUPS as a PDF printer on Ubuntu can add this userbox to their userpage if they so desire! 
If anyone would like other CUPS userboxes (for other distros or uses), I would be happy to make them up for you, please just leave a request here on this talk page. - Ahunt (talk) 17:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: CUPS-PDF userbox

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Printersetup.png

message: Review and confirm B-class per request. Airplaneman talk 05:10, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  B-class 

message: From digging around it looks like CUPS started life under the AFPL in its beta versions but switched to the GPL in version 1.0b3 (as seen on http://freshmeat.net/projects/cups/releases/4458 and by poking through http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/tags/  ) and was GPL for its 1.0 release. Does anyone know when 1.0b3 was actually "released" though as the timestamps on sourceforge seem weird...
82.69.60.196 (talk) 09:20, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  CUPS licence history? 

message: Mandriva was pulled off the shelf from Mandriva.com
Perhaps Mageai, it's current existing fork hosts a similar tool.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swestlake (talk • contribs) 05:32, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mandriva obsolete, no longer exists 

message: The References 7-9 are no longer reachable. I found some design information at https://www.cups.org/doc/spec-design.html. I am not sure if this is the correct replacement... May be all the references should be checked!
--HH1946 (talk) 19:09, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  References not up-to-date 

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