Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS (Tasks)

This chapter includes information for managing your printing environment by using the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS), including how to transition to using CUPS if you previously used the LP print service to manage printers. The interfaces that are described in this chapter include the CUPS command-line utilities, the CUPS web browser interface, and CUPS Print Manager, a GUI that can be accessed in the desktop.

This is a list of the information that is in this chapter:

• Introduction to CUPS

• Setting Up Your Printing Environment to Work With CUPS

• Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS Command-Line Utilities

• Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using the CUPS Web Browser Interface (Task Map)

• Setting Up Printers by Using CUPS Print Manager (Task Map)

• Administering Printers by Using CUPS Print Manager (Task Map)