Chapter 6. Printing and Managing Print Jobs
Over the years, Linux has had several printing systems, including the venerable Line Printer Daemon (LPD) and LPR Next Generation (LPRng) that are still found in vestigial form on modern Linux distributions. In the past few years, however, most distributions have settled on the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) as their backend of choice. CUPS is well supported, easy to use, modern, and a perfect drop-in replacement for LPD and LPRng. The same commands used with LPD and LPRng still work, but now they call functions in CUPS.
This chapter focuses on CUPS because it is the printing system with which most Linux users work. This chapter does not cover how to set up and configure a printer. Most distributions ...
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