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 ...
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Where can I get the 64bit Windows Cups drivers?
I'm trying to setup a samba print server so that when users add a printer in Windows, the Cups postscript drivers are supplied and installed automatically.
This is working fine for 32 bit Win 7 ...
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Can't print from most remote clients after updating to CUPS 1.5.3
My problem is happening identically with CUPS 1.5.3 on two different Linux distributions, so I strongly believe it is a CUPS-specific issue and not related to any distribution.
I had a CUPS 1.5.0 ...
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Multiple Clients for Printserver
I have a network with many client PCs and many different Printers, that either have a built-in or external printserver.
There are different groups of client PCs that should see only some of the ...
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Upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04.2 LTS and can no longer print via CUPS [migrated]
I have had CUPS running on a Linux box at home since Ubuntu 10.04 (if not older). The printer is a networked laser printer. CUPS on the Linux box talks to the printer and various other machines talk ...
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Can't Make CUP Printer Findable Using Avahi
I recently set up a Debian 6.0 system to be a printer server. I am able to print locally from the server. I then followed the System Printing Tutorial to share the printer.
The problem is that I ...
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Know the number of pages printed from cups printing
I am using the CUPS print server on a MAC to manage printing, I would like to know the number of pages that are printed by any user for any job, however the column for pages writes unknown for each ...
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CUPS printers discovered via browsing appear as ///dev/null
I have two servers on the same subnet, one CUPS server and one that needs to access printers configured on the CUPS server. CUPS browsing seems to be partially working, but according to lpstat on the ...
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CUPS-LPD print server scalability
So the manpage for cups-lpd says "large configurations" are a bad idea, but does not elaborate. Does anyone have any experience with using this tool at scale and how it copes?
I'm looking at around ...
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How Do I Enable CUPS Browsing Across A Network?
I have a CUPS server with two print queues defined. Once this was defined, all the CUPS clients on the same subnet could see the two print queues automatically, no problem.
Now I have a collection ...
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AIX 6.1 - CUPS 'unsupported document-format' when printing
I have a Zebra printer that I'm trying to send a PDF of a label to. I was reading on Zebra's website that CUPS is an optional print server/spooler that can be used for exactly what I need. So I went ...
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Printer recognized but not printing. CUPS
I'm using a HP 1000 J110 connected to a server which I access via ssh. I use lsusb and it appears there. Then, I Pasted the PPD on the /etc/cups/ppd/ folder... Is the ppd my pc uses to print when ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 cups 1.6 won't connect to my CentOS6 1.4.2 cups
Right now I have a CentOS 5 cups server, which runs cups 1.3.7 and the Ubuntu 12.10 users can't print to it because tehy use cups 1.6.
According to this bug, it is a regression in cups 1.6.
Trying ...
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CUPS Client hide print queues
Since it seems that getting Negotiate authentication is difficult/impossible to achieve with a local CUPS spooler on each client (see CUPS Negotiate authentication woes), I am now looking at an ...
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CUPS Negotiate authentication woes
I have been struggling to Kerberize certain services within our domain, one of which is CUPS. The setup is as follows: a central print server connects to each individual printer around the domain and ...
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Samba printers installation
Is there any open source software which allows to install on the windows clients samba/cups printers from the web based interface? Something like Novell iPrint
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Modify existing printer settings in CUPS on RHEL4
Due to some network changes one of our printers has a new IP. A user came to me today with the following quote: "I can't print from the linux." The IP was changed a month ago and apparently we don't ...
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CUPS basic auth error through web interface
I'm trying to configure CUPS to allow remote administration through the web interface. There's enough documentation out there that I can figure out what to change in my cupsd.conf (changing Listen ...
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On clients use generic driver for printer shared by CUPS
I know this worked really easy with a recent CUPS version some years ago. Unfortunately I fail to do the following with latest CUPS nowadays. How to share a printer without using printer specific ...
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Windows 2003 print services for unix causing CUPS “lpd_command returning 1”
We have several Windows 2003 servers with print services for Unix on them, and which allow Linux machines running CUPS to use printers defined to CUPS with the URI ...
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LPR command won't recognize CUPS printer
I have a cups server with one shared printer configured on it. It prints test pages without problems.
printername (Idle, Accepting Jobs, Shared)
Description: desc
Location:
Driver: Zebra ZPL ...
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Can't download driver for shared CUPS printer
I have an OSX Lion Server(OSX 10.7.5) acting as a CUPS(1.5.4) print server. I've added the network printer(Konica Minolta using Efi Fiery driver) and installed the appropriate drivers on the print ...
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CUPS printing via socket very slow
I don't find anything suitable on this topic:
we have a Solaris server, running CSW CUPS and several network printers.
Printing using LPD is fast, but when we try socket or SMB, it is painfully slow ...
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cups log kills ubuntu 12.04 and sudoer permissions changed [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 as a desktop and recently had a weird crash with the log file for cups filling up the entire drive and not letting me back in, also what changed was
/var/lib/sudo had changed ...
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AuthInfoRequired cups overwrites
My problem is basically identical to the following:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61826
Put simply, I have a machine in ubuntu trying to connect to another ubuntu machine via a ...
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CentOS, CUPS - printer managment
I'm using CentOS 6.3, and trying to get a printer PIXMA iP4950 to work. The printer is attached via USB.
I've downloaded and installed the drivers from the Cannon website, and have the printer ...
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What is the “right” way to host CUPS behind Apache 2
I have tried some combinations of ProxyPass, ProxyPassReverse and ProxyHTMLURLMap but I'm still not having much luck. I just would like to be able to hit the printers in CUPS by going to ...
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Mac OS X printing to CUPS - More intuitive authentication failure?
We have a network-wide CUPS server that offers authenticated printer access to all our campus users. We've been pretty disappointed with the way Mac clients handle bad printing authentication, though.
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Failed to find user 'avahi'
So I'm trying to setup CUPS + AirPrint support and one of the packages required is Avahi.
I have installed it via ipkg, and have tried running the daemon, however I get the following error.
Failed ...
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Sharing a USB printer with IPP (internet printing protocol)?
I have a small server (Linux 2.6.x) with one dedicated USB port only for printers. And I have been asked to configure a software to automatically share via IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) any printer ...
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SELinux preventing cups-pdf output to samba shared directory
I want to setup an cups-pdf printer to print PDFs to a samba shared directory but SELinux denies cups access to the shared directory. (cups needs to write to a local FS directory which is hosted as a ...
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Print issue on Cannon IR3570 (Linux Mint 9)
I am trying to configure a Cannon IR3570 printer on my Linux Mint 9 desktop. Post configuration when I am giving a test print or even any other document print I am getting a page with the text '00001' ...
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Why is there a 10 second delay when printing on Ubuntu Server 10.04?
I've seen tons of posts asking this and similar questions on various forums, but no one seems to be able to provide a solution.
The basic problem goes like this:
Printing worked fine on [Insert ...
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List additional CUPS printer information
How to display printer information, such as printer description or printer location using command line tools?
lpstat -t lists printer names, classes and devices for printers, but it doesn't list ...
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print PDFs to printer (NOT “pdf printer”)
I'm looking for a solution, either win or linux, for printing existing PDFs to network printers (available via our windows print server), preferrably by a 'hot folder' means where I could ...
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Delay in CUPS socket backend
Using the raw driver to send pre-generated PCL directly to the printer, I get response times around 4 s. When I send it to the printer using netcat I get about 300 ms.
It seems that there is some ...
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Why do lp and lpr return unauthorized?
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with latest updates.
Here are my system's protections for lp and lpr.
root@steamboy:/usr/bin# ls -l lp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13540 2011-09-12 10:41 lp
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Change CUPS default printer error policy
I run CUPS printing on a number of multiuser Linux application servers. The systems are RHEL or CentOS version 4, 5 or 6. Starting the EL5, the CUPS print server defaults to an error policy that ...
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SAMBA CUPS Samsung ML-191x two printers exact model both wont distinguish which is connected on which port
I have installed a version of Cent0S 6.02 with SAMBA and CUPS 1.4.8 installed, I have two Samsung ML-191x that I need to install in the server so anyone can access the, both printer, if installed ...
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Displaying CUPS shared printers in a user's printer list on OS X Lion
Background
We have a primarily Linux environment, but we have 40 Macs to support. I'm trying to integrate them into our standardized print system. We have about 50 printers shared from a CUPS server ...
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cups not printing classification
Our print server is using cups, and it is set to use a classification but the classification is not appearing on the pages. The banner prints and all config files look to be okay (printers.conf, ...
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python-cups for CentOS5
I'm try to activate airprint support on CentOS5. I found this guide, but the airprint-generate python script needs cups support. It seems this script needs the python-cups lib.
How can I install this ...
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Printer queues with Samba and CUPS
I've successfully got Samba and CUPS working together to give nice, consistent printing interfaces with just the Postscript drivers to Windows clients both IA32 and x64 of any variants since 95. The ...
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How to configure cups to allow remote printing with authentication and local printing without?
According to the cupsd.conf documentation, one should be able to "require authentication for remote access, but allow local access without authentication." There doesn't appear to be any other ...
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Printing reports in CUPS
how can i get detailed printing reports from the CUPS printing server? for example, the user sending the job, IP address, especially number of pages sent to printer
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cups won't install
I had to remove cups from my machine to do some tests. I juste removed it with apt-get purge cups but now I can't install it again, so I can't print.
I have never seen such an error, can someone give ...
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Connect to cups printer service from windows server 2008
From windows server 2003 I can easily add a cups printer service from another host:
I tried the same on a windows server 2008 machine, as Administrator, but I cannot find a way to add this kind of ...
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Load all printers drivers on a custom Debian CD
I am building a custom Debian CD to install a Debian web server with our software, and it have to handle a printer, which can be any existing printer. How can I add all printers drivers, and how CUPS ...
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CentOS CUPS Configuration
I have a question about configuring CUPS for CentOS. I have CUPS installed on CentOS in one machine, and I am trying to access the web interface of CUPS from a different machine. The machine with ...
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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 ...
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How do you disable SMB printing support?
I'm running CentOS on a storage server that has to do file sharing for with Windows machines. SMB version is smbd version 3.5.5-68.fc13
I'm getting a lot of error messages in /var/log/messages ...
