-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 CUPS is a printing system. What does it mean? In Linux, printers are represented as queues. Each queue can be a different printer, or the same printer with different configurations. When you print something, you send the file to a server in memory. This server processes the file and sends it to the required queue. It is nice because local printers, remote printers (of whatever kind) just look the same for the user. This server is CUPS (it could be LPRng, LPD, etc). It is very complex compared with older systems like LPRng and is able to process documents before they are printed in a very nice way. Some KDE printing features (in the printing dialog) work only with CUPS. I hope you get the idea. Otherwise just ask again. ;-) - -- Thibaut Cousin E-mail : cousin@in2p3.fr Web : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9yOdKv1vqsTa1E4oRAul0AKDPTTRclQlvYdxx23acWCdHq8sygACffUJY L6i3Gr4TV+LIls4mdGD7cS0= =ez+D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----