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====C.U.P.S.====
printing management
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~Binary code distribution:
~~-[[http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02943 cups-1.4.8-w5c.pet]]
~~-[[software other packages]]
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~Dependencies: +[[bzip2]],+[[dbus]],+[[grep]],+[[libjpeg]],+[[libpng]],+[[libtiff]],+[[openssl]],+[[tar]]
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~Source code distribution: http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/
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==Tutorial==
~-Verify installed version by using the command-line interface: %%cups-config --version%%
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~-C.U.P.S. status: %%/etc/init.d/cups status%%
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~-[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59015 How to Install Printers & Scanners]]
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==Appendix==
~http://www.cups.org/
~http://www.t2-project.org/packages/cups.html
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40225 Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) v1.3.11 thread]]
~[[http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02567 Wary/Racy printing fix blog]]
~http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01211
~http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=13466
~PrintingFurtherQuestions
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"When your desktop was running Puppy 4.3.1, it had CUPS 1.1.23. This version automatically shared its printers with other machines on the network. Now that you have Puppy 5.1, you are using CUPS 1.4.x. In this version you need to specify that you want to share a printer. This is done in two places.
1. When you add a printer, there is a checkbox for Share This Printer.
2. Under the Administration tab, look in the Server section. There is a checkbox for Share Printers Connected to this System."
[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=443071#443071]]
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"this whole exercise serves to reinforce my personal prejudice against CUPS 1.4"
[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=444113#444113]]
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"Lupu's CUPS has two protocols for printing to a Windows shared printer. The first, "Windows Printer via SAMBA" is the Puppy standard and uses the smb: backend. However, Barry has introduced an alternate method called "Windows Printer using smbclient" which uses the smbc: backend. This one is broken and requires the following patch:
%%ln -s /opt/samba/bin/smbclient /usr/bin/smbclient%% Both methods work correctly after the patch."
[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=444831#444831]]
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"Are they not testing CUPS properly prior to releases? As usual, this is not a CUPS problem - it's related to fonts."
[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=445026#445026]]
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