Questions tagged [cups]
CUPS (acronym for Common Unix Printing System) is a printing system for computer operating systems like Unix, allows a computer to act as a print server. A computer running CUPS is a host that can accept print jobs from client computers, process them and send them to the correct printer.
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How to resume CUPS printer from command line?
I have printer in CUPS that due to driver problems (HP 1010) from time to time goes into pause.
I would like to write a shell script that will execute once per hour to resume a printer in CUPS. But ...
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lp vs lpr. What to use in case of CUPS and what historical difference?
My Debian distro provide the lp and lpr commands for printing from CUPS.
I am a noob to printing in UNIX but have other tech skills.
I tried to find a difference in man lp and man lpr. It seems that ...
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How to add a fake, dummy, null printer in CUPS?
I'm writing a piece of software that supports multiple printers. In order to test it, I need to add multiple printers to my CUPS server. How can I do that?
I want to add a few fake printers that will ...
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IPP Printing from Windows 7 Ultimate
I have network IPP working on Ubuntu and Windows XP. On my Windows 7 instance, it refuses to acknowledge the remote server connection. Can anyone suggest how to configure this correctly?
My install ...
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Is there an approved way to clear /var/cups/cache on a Unix system?
My CUPS server has bad, obsolete data in /var/cups/cache. I could just blow away all the files, but I'd like to know if there is a "correct" way to clear the CUPS cache. Man pages and Google have ...
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Can a printer driver access internet if it wants?
I want to buy new a printer because my old one refuses to print unless I give it access to the internet outside the LAN. I can't really control what it is saying about my print jobs to other ...
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How to set the minimum margin in CUPS / foomatic driver?
I have a Dell 2130cn laser printer which has no PPD print driver for CUPS, so I used the generic foomatic PCL6 (/pxlcolor if that matters), and it's not correctly recognizing my printer's print ...
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Manual Duplex printing for Mac (and/or Linux)
My printers don't support automatic duplex printing. I'm looking for a solution for my Mac and Linux computers that I've seen with most Windows printer drivers:
Check "Manual duplex" in the printer ...
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Arch Linux - Cannot start CUPS service with systemd
In order to get printing working in Arch Linux, I installed cups, cups-filters, and hplilp (ghostscript and gs-fonts were already installed). However, when I try and make the CUPS service run on ...
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Debian ARM and Brother DCP195C with CUPS
I want to have acces to my DCP 195C printer (Brother) over LAN. For this purpose I have bought an raspberry pi and installed CUPS on it. CUPS runs fine and everything else is running smooth as well. ...
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How to rename a CUPS printer?
I do lot of printing in command line through lpr command, for which I need conveniently short destination names like lp1, lp2 etc. In past I could name the printers, but in opensuse 13.2, yast ...
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Printable A5 booklet on A4 sheets from A5 pages using psutils, pstops and CUPS?
I want to create a CUPS printer queue which accepts books with A5 pages and automatically arranges them as booklets on A4 paper before printing them. Essentially, this is done wonderfully using the ...
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Getting avahi to automatically publish CUPS printers
I know I can manually add a .service file for each printer I have. But I would like to have them published automatically.
But from what I've read, it is also possible to get CUPS to inform avahi ...
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How to get Canon printers to work with Arch Linux?
I am trying to setup a Canon MF4412 printer on my Arch Linux desktop.
I followed the official guide in setting up a CUPS server/client as well as installing the cndrvcups-lb driver package.
However, ...
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How do I print an entire page in Firefox?
For my personal records (e.g. receipts), I like to print a web page in Firefox using CUPS print-to-pdf. This works great when the page layout is narrow. However, if the page is too wide, the output is ...
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Force scaling when printing an alien paper size
Is there any way to automatically rescale a print job to a paper size supported by the printer even if the application printing has used a different paper size?
I have lot of problems with different ...
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How do I setup a WI-FI printer?
I have a Samsung ML-2168W printer with WI-FI support. Currently it is connected to my computer with a USB cable. However, I have no clue of how to connect it to the network through WI-FI (with WPA). ...
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Entered wrong username at cups and now I can't manage printers
I just installed cups. When the webinterface asked me for username and password, I gave my regular user and not the root password. Now I can't log in (forbidden). I tried to clear the browsing data ...
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Print over remote CUPS server, but just show a subset of the printers
I'd like to print from my Ubuntu laptop (karmic) to some networked printers. Our organisation uses a CUPS server with several hundred printers. What I know I can do is:
CUPS_SERVER=printers.company....
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Where are the print filters stored in Ubuntu?
I'm trying to backup my printer configuration to use it on another machine. To do this I copied the /etc/cups folder.
For some printers it says:
There is a missing print filter for printer "...
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Is it possible to print without CUPS?
Having a SOHO printer, HP DeskJet 3940 is it possible to print with lpr/lpd on Debian GNU/Linux?
The Debian Wiki says that
LPR. The still commonly used traditional printing system is called lpr ...
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Can't change CUPS settings on Mac OS X
I am accessing cups through the Mac web interface locally and need to change some settings. I typed in the address (http://127.0.0.1:631) and went to the admin panel (no login required).
I went to ...
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Use CUPS own driver when sharing a printer
I am trying to get an old printer working for a family member. The printer itself is working fine but I can't find a way to print from Windows 10 to that printer, the drivers for that printer no ...
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Printing without a spooler
I have a non-root account on a shared server, on which the system administrators do not support printing because of past experience with stalled and runaway jobs. For the same reason, they do not ...
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How to prevent cups from timing out jobs
I upgraded from Ubuntu Precise (12.04) to Trusty (14.04) and now it seems CUPS times out jobs and automatically deletes them after exactly 3 hours.
However I usually do not have the printer running ...
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AirPrint and AirPlay on FreeNAS
I would like to add AirPrint support to a legacy Brother network printer and, if possible, also have AirPlay audio streaming to a stereo on the same shelf. I ran across a great tutorial on how to do ...
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Linux: Alert user when a file changes
Here's a more general use question.
How can I monitor a log file for specific changes, and use a "notify-send" alert in Ubuntu to alert when said changes occur?
ORIGINAL QUESTION:
I'm attempting ...
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How does one Install a Brother HL-2270DW Laser Printer on Arch Linux ARM and Raspberry Pi 4B?
How to Install a Brother HL-2270DW Laser Printer on Arch Linux ARM and Raspberry Pi 4B?
I can rarely find a solution to Arch Linux ARM 4.19 integration and implementation issues. This is a self-...
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Testing IPP Printing with ipptool
I'm trying to send an IPP print job using the ipptool. Using the sample .test files, I can send commands to the printer, but I am unable to successfully use the print-job.test file.
Here's an example ...
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Printer on a ARM Linux (CUPS) - general theories/questions
I have a theory and I kindly ask the skilled linux users to confirm/deny it (I am not a skileld one at all). Im running:
Raspberry Pi model B+, Raspbian OS and CUPS 1.5.4
And I bought the SEWOO LK-...
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CUPS “Unable to get printer status”
Recently after a system upgrade I can no longer print from local networked HP printers.
The error message on the CUPS Jobs webpage is
"Unable to get printer status".
When not printing, the output ...
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Missing characters when printing in linux
I have a pdf that I was printing recently, and on the final printout there is a single character that doesn't print. It is the greek letter phi, and the pdf was built with pdflatex. The phi shows up ...
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Why do I get 400 Bad Request in ubuntu 9.10 cups server?
I have a cups server running on ubuntu 9.10 on my home network. Right now I can access it at 192.168.1.101:631, but when I try to access it at myservername.local:631, I get a 400 Bad Request. Here is ...
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CUPS : Creating a dummy printer directing to dev/null
I used following command , is there anything wrong with it ?
lpadmin -p lp0 -E -v /dev/null -m raw
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What is ram bank locator
I have two same rams installed in two different computers, when I do dmidecode --type memory on the two, I have found the two RAMs have some different values, I am wondering why should be the case?
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Adobe Reader seems to use wrong lpr command when printing to CUPS
On my debian lenny box, printing via CUPS works fine, e.g. using OpenOffice.
When printing from Adobe Reader, however, stuff doesn't work. It appears the problem happens during the first step of the ...
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Colorspace invalid error with cups
I am attempting to print a PDF, but CUPS is giving me an error stating:
"(urftopdf) die(Invalid ColorSpace, only RGB 24BIT type 1 is supported) [Success]"
I'm not really even sure what this means. ...
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How to enable printer discovery using DNS-SD?
On Centos 8, I run lpinfo --include-schemes dnssd -v to discover printers, as suggested by CUPS documentation. Suspiciously, the command returns immediately without discovering anything.
tcpdump ...
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Why does my HP printer keep getting stuck on the last page when printing on Linux?
I have an HP inkjet printer with a duplex printing attachment. Whenever I print a document with an odd number of pages, the last page gets "stuck", and the only way to reset the printer is to actually ...
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CUPS 1.6.1 client and CUPS 1.4.4 server
I have a Debian "server" (old desktop that's just always on) running CUPS 1.4.4, a Gentoo desktop with CUPS 1.5 (I think), and a laptop with Arch Linux and CUPS 1.6.1.
On the Debian box (the server ...
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CUPS refuses to print with "Unauthorized"
Connected Brother driverless printer to Debian 12 machine. Attempting to print results in "lp: Unauthorized". CUPS can print a test page successfully.
Checked OpenSuse CUPS Problem, but ...
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Setup postscript printer in Windows 10 to print to cups 1.7.2 on linux system
I am onto 64-bit MS Windows 10 and want to print, double-sided if possible, to an older inkjet printer with no windows support attached to a linux Debian Jessie system.
In theory, it would be enough ...
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CUPS, suggest driver for Windows
I have configured CUPS PDF on the Linux side and printing works fine from Windows via IPP (over HTTP).
However when I add the printer to Windows, I need to manually select the driver to be used. Is ...
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pdf printer in wine?
I wish to convert (print) my MS Word files to pdf on the fly ! I am on Ubuntu 9.10 and using Wine 1.1.40. Can someone help ? I have heard that pdf printer can be installed using Wine Cups !
Thanks !
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How do I use my Brother MFC-7440N from Debian or Ubuntu?
I have a Brother MFC-7440N. I would like to print to it from Debian Squeeze over the network without installing Brother's official driver, which I know for sure to be out of date and non-functional ...
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How can I use CUPS' basic authentication from a windows client?
I've set up a CUPS server, and configured a printer to require a "valid-user". I have set up a Linux user on the box with a password. I've tested that it requires the username/password from a Linux ...
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Cannot change default paper size in CUPS
I'm running suse 12.1x86 (Gnome 3) with cups 1.5.x (guessing, I'm not at my pc right now). We have a network-connected Xerox printer and recently we changed its IP.
Connection to the printer was ...
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Reducing the file size of PDFs generated with CUPS-PDF
I use CUPS-PDF to automatically generate PDFs from documents, but the size of the outputted PDFs is astonishingly high (~8 Mb vs ~800 Kb of I file produced by File -> Save as PDF). Any suggestion on ...
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CUPS: please help to share printer between linux machines
I have a USB printer connected to Raspberry Pi. I also have a workstation with Linux.
I have installed CUPS on both Raspberry and workstation. I logged in to CUPS on Raspberry (https://192.168.100.16:...
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Cups without webserver
I have a minimal linux system and I would like to print. It seems
the usual approach is to install cups.
But what I think is very annoying is that cups comes with its own webserver to do the ...
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