Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, The, Second Edition

Chapter 21. Cups Printing Support

Introduction

Features and Benefits

The Common UNIX Print System (CUPS^[1]) has become quite popular. All major Linux distributions now ship it as their default printing system. To many, it is still a mystical tool. Mostly, it just works. People tend to regard it as a “black box” that they do not want to look into as long as it works. But once there is a little problem, they have trouble finding out where to start debugging it. Refer to Chapter 20, “Classical Printing Support”, which contains much information that is also relevant to CUPS.

CUPS sports quite a few unique and powerful features. While its basic functions may be grasped quite easily, they are also new. Because it is different from other, more traditional ...