CUPS administrative guide
Subtitle: a practical tutorial to installing, managing, and securing this powerful printing system
By: Ankur Shah
Series: From technologies to solutions; From technologies to solutions
Publisher: Packt Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Birmingham, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781847192585
Subjects: Computer printers; Software; Printing; UNIX (Computer file)
Other titles: Common UNIX Printing System administrative guide
Description: "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.
Notes: Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.