CUPS stands for Common Unix Printing System, is an open source printing system allowing computer to become a print server and manage the printers on the network.
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Username conflicts on a central printer queue
We have just switched to a centralized print queue. The printer is setup with
lpadmin -p SPScolour -E -D "Sustainable Print Colour" -v lpd://xxx.yyy.com/colour
The IT people are saying my local ...
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How to “close” open ports?
A few days ago I started to care a lot about my data security, I end up nmaping myself with: nmap 127.0.0.1
Surprise, surprise, I have lots of active services listen to localhost:
$ nmap 127.0.0.1
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User data in evince and cups
Some days ago my evince stopped printing. After reinstalling it and trying different versions without success I figured out that it works from other user accounts on the same box.
So which files ...
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Cups configuration does not consider my new PPD driver (Debian Wheezy)
My Brother HL-4040CN is very impredictible when trying to print images or PDFs. Searching around, I found an accurate driver description file at openprinting.org: ...
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How to make a printer which is recognized but not working print
I'm running a Debian 6.0. I connected an HP 1000 J110 to my server which I access via SSH. Listing the USB ports it recognized it. Also I Pasted the PPD on the /etc/cups/ppd/ folder. Is the PPD my PC ...
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How to force lp from CUPS to print in grayscale?
I want to print an image from a command line:
lp -o scaling=//100// image.jpg
How can I force it to be printed in grayscale?
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Enable remote printing options with cups-lpd
I am trying to print from SCO OpenServer remotely to a CUPS-LPD daemon running on a Red Hat Linux machine but it is dropping any print options from the print request.
For example:
lp -d ...
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cups - broken pipe
I just formatted my root partition and installed 12.3 (I kept my home partition as usual).
I have a problem with my network printer hp laserjet 4015n. It used to work seemingslessly before. Now cups ...
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how can I configure cups to be used from network machines with windows?
Ive been fighting with "CUPS" since many hours (too many) and I still cannot figure out whats wrong, I installed a printer on a Debian Machine, when I will add a printer I have two options "Local ...
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Images won't print in landscape. Ricoh MPC3500
Had a strange quirk with a Ricoh MPC3500 unable to print images in landscape. At first I thought it was just not printing images but after some testing it prints them fine in portrait.
Im using Mint ...
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View all user's printing jobs from the command line
I'm running Fedora 17, Gnome (3?), and using bash from terminal. Whenever I run lpstat I only get a list of my jobs, but every time I go to retrieve my jobs from the printer, somebody else is ...
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CUPS - check if print successful (either python or in system)
EDIT: I forgot to make it clear I'm using python and pycups. The code is python but I shouldn't have thought that was enough.
I've dug through the cups documentation a few times and couldn't find ...
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CUPS gives 'Unable to open the initial device, quitting' when printing to network printer
I am trying to print over Wi-Fi to an HP Photosmart D110 printer which is successfully recognized by CUPS. But I only get a sheet with the error message Unable to open the initial device, quitting. ...
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Can (CUPS) ppd files for Mac OS X be used for linux?
I am looking at buying a printer (actually an all-in-one I prefer for the features it provides, but I want to focus on the printer part here) which does not provide linux drivers, but does provide Mac ...
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Ricoh Aficio SP 100su E
After installing a Ricoh Aficio SP 100su E printer (it does scanning as well),
I've tried a tenth of the GDI and PCL (5e/6) generic and Ricoh drivers without any success.
I've learned from Ricoh that ...
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Get list of installed printers
Inside of a script I send a certain file to print using the lpr command on an user-selected printer.
The list of the printers, from which the user selects the one to use, I get using the lpstat -a ...
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How do restore printer settings from a backup
I recently re-installed my system from Mint 12 to Mint 14. Pretty much everything is set as before but I had apparently forgotten about the printers.
In order to avoid resetting all the small ...
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Printing PDF with not embedded TrueType Font (cups / lpr)
I have a PDF in which the TrueType font OCRB is used, however the font is not embedded.
So I tried to install the font on my system (which is by the way a SLES11 SP2), I did the following things:
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Resume last print job from command line
To resume a job from command line I can call lpq which gives me the job number for example 211 and then lp -i 211 -H resume.
However is there a way
to resume the last job without figuring out its ...
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Problem with Airprint server for iOS 6
I'm trying to set up Airprint server on Raspberry Pi under CUPS. I have done everything like in this tutorial: Configuring the Raspberry Pi as an AirPrint server.
Then I have done this: Linux ...
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Samsung CLP-31x printer not working
So, my Samsung CLP-31x series printer stopped printing from Debian 6 applications. Closed source applications such as Chrome work, as does Foxit under Wine. Currently using the foo2qpdl CUPS driver. ...
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Problems with printer page format in cups
I'm setting up print server for custom thermal printer on Raspberry Pi running Linux Debian and I have a strange problem. If I print a test page it prints OK, same with web page from Firefox, but when ...
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Hold and release CUPS print jobs from command line
Is is possible to hold and release CUPS print jobs from command line? How to do it?
I tried cupsenable:
sudo cupsenable --release myprinter
but it didn't work.
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printing to “One Single CUPS Server” can not find queues if 'ServerName' is a CNAME
Running "OpenSuSE 11.4" with "cups-client-1.4.6-6.1.i586" installed, I try to use one single CUPS-server to do all my printing jobs / to manage my queues.
In YaST -> printer I've selected
[x] Do ...
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Ignoring “print banner page” flag in inbound LPD jobs (CUPS-LPD)
I have a USB inkjet printer connected to a server running CentOS 5.7 (64). I installed and enabled cups-lpd so that another Unix server could send print jobs to that printer.
The other Unix server ...
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printing problems with DDST (aka PLC6) printer RICOH Aficio SP C240DN
I'm having big problems printing on a RICOH Aficio SP C240DN (a color laser printer). Cups/Openprinting doesn't have a driver for exactly this printer. There are near numbers but not 240DN.
It also ...
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Where is the printer default option configuration file?
I am using CUPS 1.6.1.
I have a problem with printing the pages with one side only. Default option is "one-sided", as in the CUPS web interface configuration. But when I do the printing, it prints ...
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How to specify printer paper size in mm instead of inches?
In eog (Eye of Gnome) 2.30.2, I found no way to specify size unit in mm in Print... and Page Setup dialogs:
So I have to convert these sizes in inches to sizes in mm.
I'm using CUPS as the print ...
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Can I use a parallel port as a CUPS input device?
I have an old piece of a hardware that does diagnostics on medical equipment. It prints out results over a parallel port. Is there any way to have CUPS accept jobs from a parallel port and redirect ...
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Convert to postscript format using the Backend command before sending to a printer
Without using CUPS is there an way to add something on the Backend line in the print queue to convert all print sent to a queue to postscript from PDF format before sending the output to the printer?
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Is there a way to get the filename (or title) of a completed print job?
The lpq -a lists, among other things, the name of each file printed.
Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
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CUPS compilation fails on Cygwin
I was brave and tried to compile CUPS in a 32-bit Cygwin environment. I used the standard sources from the tarball.
All went fine until linking.
http://pastebin.com/QSKvLSmT
Here's the end of the ...
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lpstat and localization under Mac OS X
How to force "lpstat" utility to show output messages in English under localized Mac OS X (version 10.6)?
Example:
lpstat -v
Shows in Dutch:
apparaat voor Samsung_SCX_4300_Series: usb://.....
I ...
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CUPS - install once, use another printer (of the same model) without re-configuring problem
For example I have "HP 1020 LaserJet" local USB printer successfully installed on a CUPS.
It uses one connection.
If I get another HP 1020 LaserJet printer it wouldn't print, I am having to
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Why do I have to stop/restart cups in redhat linux in order to use a custom filter?
A colleague wrote a filter utility for me in ruby that allows me to print barcodes from a textfile. (The filter replaces @{blah} with the proper PCL and a barcode checksum character so that "blah" ...
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How to open cups in debian squeeze to all clients
The standard CUPS configuration on debian squeeze allows only access from localhost.
I would like to allow all LAN users the same permissions. The LAN is behind a secured router. Access to the eb ...
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CUPS printing of pdf files
How can I tell the lpr command (cups) that my file is actually a pdf?
lpr file.pdf
won't print anything.
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Any way for Unix to ignore lpoptions and let Java do it's job?
I'm using the javax.print API to print a Jasper Report on Debian Linux. For some reason the saved lpoptions (CUPS settings) always override settings chosen on the Java Print dialog. At this point the ...
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How to make dot matrix printer print every line of 'tail -f'
I have a dot matrix printer, an Epson LQ-500.
It works well with CUPS, and I use it to print listings sometimes, text files, etc.
now, I'd like to use it as a logging printer. for that, I need it to ...
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printing issue: single page on PC is printing across multiple pages
I have just setup a ubuntu 11.10 desktop and i have an issue with the printing.
When I send a document from the desktop to the HP Officejet 6500 E710n-z it will center it and print across 4 pages.
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Controlling users' default printer as an administrator
What are the necessary steps to change the default printer for individual users on a reasonably recent Linux system using CUPS? (i.e. not the system-wide default)
The CUPS lpr manpage indicates that ...
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Mount printers at /dev/usb and still use CUPS
Due to a new version of CUPS, I suddenly lost the direct path to my printers that was previously available under /dev/usb/lpXXX. I used this to print directly from the command line. echo "test" > ...
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CUPS authentication failure
I'm running slackware 13.37 on an HP pavillion g series. I'm trying to add a printer. I run "Manage Printers" which opens up http://localhost:631/ in my browser. I press the 'Add Printer" button and ...
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Do CUPS clients need to have drivers installed locally?
If I use CUPS, should clients have drivers installed locally?
Example: say we have 1 Networked PC with Linux, 1 Print Server (or CUPS, Samba Print server)
If the Linux PC wants to print a document ...
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Don't require root to add printers
When a user wants to add a new printer it's asking for a root password. I have an LTSP environment and the system is asking for a root password all the time; it's not asking even for a sudo'ed user's ...
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Does Printing a PDF to PDF degrade its quality?
Say I have a PDF of a website which is very long. After reading some of it, I decide there are extraneous pages in it; but rather than finding the website every time I decide to eliminate a page, I ...
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How to enable cups-lpd / port 515?
I have a print server using CUPS on a CentOS 5.3 box. On my PC, I set up a remote printer with the URI http://$PRINT_SERVER:631/printers/$PRINTER_NAME, and have successfully been able to print files ...
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How do I make “black&white” the default?
When I print something (Firefox 5 but also other apps), the option "color" is always set to "Color (CMYK)". How do I make "monochrome" or "black & white" the default?
This is a Kyocera FS-C5100DN ...
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CUPS remote printer entry is stopped locally
My local CUPS daemon on my laptop has an entry for a remote printer on my CUPS server. My local CUPS daemon thinks this printer is stopped, but it's not. The only interface CUPS gives me to manage ...
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How to print from iPad to CUPS?
I would like to print from an iPad2 to the office printer running on CUPS. After following a couple of cookbook style cheat sheets, printing from the iPad still does not work. the iPad sees the ...
