Configuring a Print Server
Christopher Negus · 2015
This chapter focuses on the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). In particular, it shows you the graphical front end to CUPS, called the Print Settings window, which comes with Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and other Linux distributions. Using Print Settings, you can also configure your printers as print servers so people can print to your printer from their own computers. The chapter explains how to use printing commands. From the command line, print commands such as lpr are available for carrying out printing. Commands also exist for querying print queues (lpq), manipulating print queues (lpc), and removing print queues (lprm). It also explains how to use CUPS web-based administration tools that come with every Linux distribution and then examines the Print Settings tool system-config-printer, which is available with Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems to enable you to set up printers.