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CUPS - Portable printing layer

The Common Unix Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX(r)-based operating systems. It has been developed to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley commandline interfaces, uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues, supports (with reduced functionality) the Line Printer Daemon ("LPD"), Server Message Block ("SMB"), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols, and adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD")-based printing options to support real-world printing under UNIX.

CUPS also includes a customized version of GNU Ghostscript and an image file RIP that are used to support non-PostScript printers. Sample drivers for HP and EPSON printers are included that use these filters.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.cups.org/
Source tarballftp://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/1.1.17/cups-1.1.17.tar.gz
Source informationftp://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/1.1.17/
Version 1.1.17 (stable) released on 2002-12-03
Version 1.1.20rc1 (devel) released on 2003-09-05
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual included; administrators manual included. Full list of documentation available in both HTML and PDF formats available from http://www.cups.org/documentation.html
Support contacts

Announce Newshttp://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php
Help Newshttp://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php
Developer Newshttp://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php
Bug List<cups-bugs@cups.org>
SupportPaid technical support and development available from Easy Software at http://www.easysw.com/.

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
  • Michael Sweet

Related information

Source repositoryhttp://www.cups.org/software.html
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC

Entry information

License verified by: Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2000-12-21
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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