On Wednesday 06 November 2002 7:21 am, Thibaut Cousin wrote:
CUPS is a printing system. What does it mean? In Linux, printers are represented as queues. Each queue can be a different 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. ;-)
I guess a real system administrator could tell you much more than me about it, but I hope you get the idea. The only thing that bothers me with CUPS is its tendency to halt print queues for no reason. Then you need to log in the server and restart them by hand. Oh, that's another good point with CUPS: you can configure and play with
Thibaut: That is the finest answer/description of CUPS I have read! Thank you. I have been searching the web for weeks to get just such an answer. That now gives me a starting point to go back and figure out just how CUPS does what you say it does. I thank you for being such a gentleman and answering the question. the
server very easily. Type "http://localhost:631" in your browser, login=root, and you have a web interface for the CUPS server. You can restart queues, configure them, etc.
Here you have described my problem and given me another starting point to figure out why it fails. Thanks again. BTW, from my Navy days over 40 years ago, RTFI was used in those schools NOT in a nice way to say Read The Fucking Instructions. The F still hasn't lost its meaning. Even when someone says it means Fine, it doesnt! We use Fine when someone's sensibilities may be offended by the real word. Fine, like Pshaw, Good Grief, and Gosh Darn, is a euphemism. I'll let you figure out what word Pshaw and the others substitute for. Best Regards, Richard