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Debian Wiki printing portal. This portal is about all things related to printers and printing in Debian.


Introduction

It is intended as a replacement for the Berkeley and System V printing systems. It was created by Easy Software Products (ESP) but today is owned, developed and maintained by Apple Inc, with the original owner of ESP, Michael R. Sweet, being Senior Printing System Engineer. In the days of ESP ownership CUPS was officially known as the Common UNIX Printing System.

The printing system used in Debian involves complex interactions between many packages. The scheduler, cupsd, is at the heart of the system, but support from a filtering system, and a large array of packages is necessary for effortless printing on a wide variety of printers.

However the system appears to work well, and local and networked printers generally function correctly. The Openprinting printer database lists many printers and their compatibility with Linux-based systems.

CUPS is the default printing system for Debian but the Berkeley LPR software is also in the archives as lprng. It cannot co-exist with cups on the same system.

Administering and Using CUPS

Development


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