CUPS Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) is a print spooler. CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol as the basis for managing print jobs and queues.CUPS also provides the System V and Berkeley command line interfaces, along with support, of reduced functionality, for server message block (SMB).
CUPS adds PostScript Printer Description based printing options (drivers).
For years, the printing problem has plagued Unix. Unlike Microsoft Windows or Mac OS, Unix has no standard interface or system in place for supporting printers. Among the solutions offered the System V and Berkley printing systems was the most prevalent.
These printing systems support line printers (text only) or PostScript printers (text and graphics), and with some coaxing they can be made to support a full range of printers and file formats. However, because each variant of the Unix Operating System uses a different printing system than the next, developing printer drivers for a wide range of printers and operating systems was extremely difficult.
CUPS is widely adopted and so eliminates the printing problem. One common printing system can be used by all Unix variants to support the printing needs of users. Printer vendors can use its modular filter interface to develop a single driver program that supports a wide range of file formats with little or no effort. Since CUPS provides both System V and Berkeley printing commands, users (and applications) can reap the benefits of this new technology with no changes.
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