CUPS Administrative Guide Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Overview of the CUPS Features
• History of Printing in UNIX
• Printing with Personal Computers
• Evolution of CUPS as a Printing System
• Architecture of CUPS
• Network Printing
• CUPS Features
• Support for Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
• Compatibility with Other Print Systems
• Support for Web Interface
• Modular Architecture
• Support of Postscript Printer Description Drivers (PPDs) in CUPS

• Summary

• Chapter 2: Building and Installing CUPS
• Downloading Source Code
• Compiling CUPS
• Installing the Software
• Installing a Binary Distribution
• Building RPMs
• Creating Binary Distribution with EPM
• Installing a Portable Distribution
• Installing an RPM Distribution
• Installing CUPS from a Debian Distribution
• Subversion Access
• Compiling from Subversion
• Running the Software

• Installing CUPS Using the Package Manager on Linux
• Testing CUPS
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Printer Management
• Printer Drivers
• PostScript Printer Description (PPD) Drivers
• Non-PostScript Printers
• Ghostscript Built-In
• Filter
• CUPS Raster
• Ink Jet Server (IJS) Plug-in
• Uniprint
• CUPS DDK
• Foomatic-RIP
• Installing PPD
• Managing Printer through the Command Line
• Basic Command for Adding the Printer
• Managing Printers from the Command-Line
• Deleting Printers
• Setting the Default Printer
• Starting and Stopping Printers
• Accepting and Rejecting Print Jobs
• Checking Printer Status
• Setting Quotas on a Printer
• Restricting User Access to a Printer
• Printing Banner Pages
• Some More Printer and CUPS-Specific Commands
• Managing Print Jobs through Command Line
• Submitting Files for Printing
• Checking the Status of Print Jobs
• Choosing a Printer
• Setting Printer Options
• Printing the Output of a Program
• Printing Multiple Copies
• Checking the Printer Status
• Canceling a Print Job
• Moving a Print Job
• Managing Printers using the CUPS Web Interface
• Administration
• Adding a New Printer
• Managing Jobs
• Find New Printers
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Managing Multiple Printers at a Time
• Configuring Printer Classes
• Features and Advantages
• Implicit Class
• Managing Printer Classes Through Command-Line
• Adding a Printer to a Class
• Removing a Printer from a Class
• Removing a Class

• Managing Printer Classes Through CUPS Web Interface
• Adding a New Printer Class
• Stop Class
• Reject Jobs
• Unpublished Printer
• Cancel All Jobs
• Delete Class
• Modifying a Class
• Setting up Printer Options for Class
• Printing a Test Page for a Printer Class
• Setting a Printer Class as Default
• Set Allowed Users
• Nested Printer Classes

• Summary

• Chapter 5: CUPS Server Management
• System Requirement
• Configuration Files
• Classes Directives
• Accepting
• Printer
• Class
• DefaultClass
• AllowUser
• DenyUser
• Info
• Location
• JobSheets
• KLimit
• PageLimit
• QuotaPeriod
• State
• StateMessage
• Client Directives
• ServerName
• Encryption
• Server Directives
• Editing the cupsd.conf File Via the Web Interface
• Important Directives of cupsd.conf
• Server Identity
• ServerAdmin
• ServerName
• Server Options
• LogLevel
• Network Options
• Listen
• Port
• Browsing Options
• Browsing
• BrowseOrder
• BrowseAllow
• BrowseDeny
• BrowseProtocols
• BrowseAddress
• BrowseShortNames
• Security Options
• SystemGroup
• AuthType
• Location
• ImplicitClasses
• ImplicitAnyClasses
• Printer Directives
• Accepting
• Printer
• DefaultPrinter
• AllowUser
• DenyUser
• DeviceURI
• Info
• Location
• JobSheets
• KLimit
• PageLimit
• QuotaPeriod
• State
• StateMessage
• Concept of Operation Policies
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Client Setup
• Setting up a CUPS Client
• Print Queues
• Manual Configuration of Print Queues
• Automatic Configuration of Print Queues
• CUPS Server's Communication with Clients
• Load Balancing and Failsafe Operation
• UNIX/Linux Client
• LPD Clients
• xinetd
• inetd
• Windows Clients
• Printing with Samba
• Printing with Other Systems
• Printing with LPD Servers (lpd)
• Printing with Mac OS X 10.2 or later
• Printing with Windows Servers (smb)
• LPD
• Samba
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Quota Management
• Setting up Quota in CUPS
• job-k-limit
• job-page-limit
• job-quota-period
• User Restrictions
• Error Messages
• Correct and Incorrect Accounting
• Overview of the page_log file
• Flaws of the CUPS Quota system
• Other Accounting Tools
• PyKota
• Features of PyKota:
• Checking Prerequisites and Downloading Application
• Installation
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Monitoring CUPS
• Using the lpstat Command

• Overview of the access_log File
• Overview of the error_log File
• How SNMP Helps Search for Network Printers

• Overview of snmp.conf
• Address
• Community
• DebugLevel
• DeviceURI
• HostNameLookups
• MaxRunTime

• How SNMP Behaves in the CUPS Web Interface
• Overview of Basic Debugging in CUPS-SNMP

• Overview of mailto.conf
• Monitoring SNMP Printers
• Downloading and Installing Cacti
• Features of Cacti
• Configuring an SNMP Printer with Cacti

• Summary

• Chapter 9: File Typing and Filtering
• Architecture—CUPS Filtering System
• An Overview of the mime.types file
• An Overview of the mime.convs file
• Adding Filetypes and Filters
• Overview of Filter in CUPS
• An Overview of pre-filters
• An Overview of the pstops Filter
• An Overview of the pstoraster Filter
• An Overview of the imagetoraster Filter
• An Overview of the imagetops Filter
• Rasterto and other Printer-Specific Filters
• Foomatic and cupsomatic Filters
• Additional Filter Functionality
• Raw Printing
• Application/octet-stream Printing
• PostScript Printer Descriptions (PPDs) for non-PostScript Printers
• Cupsomatic/foomatic-rip versus Native CUPS Printing
• Examples for Filtering Chains
• Printing with Interface Scripts
• An Overview of the CUPS Printing Process
• Writing your own Filter or Printer Driver
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Security
• Encryption Support in CUPS
• Configuring SSL during CUPS Installation
• Encryption Support
• SSLListen
• SSLPort
• Encryption
• Access Control
• Address-Based Access Control
• Authentication Support
• Authentication using Password
• Basic Authentication
• Digest Authentication
• Authentication using Certificates
• System and Group Authentication
• Kerberos Authentication
• Configuring Kerberos on the System
• Configuring CUPS to use Kerberos Authentication
• Protection from Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks
• CUPS Release Notes
• Summary

• Index