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CUPS stands for Common Unix Printing System, is an open source printing system allowing computer to become a print server and manage the printers on the network.

CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac OS® X and other UNIX®-like operating systems. It in essence is a print spooler and scheduler and filtering point to convert the print data into naive format that printer understands. It actually uses 'Internet Print Protocol (IPP)' as the basis for managing print jobs and queues.

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CUPS prints n² as many copies as I want

This has baffled me for a few weeks now. I have a Kyocera network printer set up in CUPS, and whenever I try to print to it I seem to end up with n² as many copies as I request. That is, I try to print 2 copies of a document and I get 4 I try to…
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Cups "add printer" page returns forbidden on web interface

Cups "add printer" page returns forbidden on Web Interface on http://localhost:631/admin I tried adding my main user to "lp" and restarting, but no change. I also tried setting at the top of the cups.conf SystemGroup printadmin and doing sudo…
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a stop job is running for make remote cups printers available locally

At almost each shutdown of my Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon 64-bit, I must wait ages at: a stop job is running for make remote cups printers available locally Some information I find most useful: I have one installed local USB printer unattached…
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How to "close" open ports?

A few days ago I started to care a lot about my data security, I end up nmaping myself with: nmap 127.0.0.1 Surprise, surprise, I have lots of active services listen to localhost: $ nmap 127.0.0.1 Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-05-05…
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How to show the CUPS printer jobs history?

I am printing some files from a remote computer to a network printer with the lpr command. It apparently worked, but some minutes later when I typed lpstat or lpq, the job had already disappeared, it had probably already printed the file. Is there a…
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How to disable CUPS service on reboot with systemd?

I often connect to a network, which has a lot of printers. When printer discovery is ongoing, a lot of distracting messages pop up in GNOME. I use printer only rarely, so I would prefer to keep CUPS disabled most of time. Stopping CUPS works and…
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What does spool mean for printing?

Mark wrote a comment for me I don't know offhand how to make cups not spool, that is, how to make the lpr command only exit after the printer driver has run. What does "spool" for printing mean? Google says it is a verb meaning "send (data that…
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unable to install anything using apt-get because of insserv

Whenever I try to install something using apt-get I get the error messages involving insserv. I have tried install many different packages but everything give same error. And apparently, CUPS package is doing/has done something because every error…
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Printing problem with ArchLinux and CUPS service

Sice a few days (I suspect since I have upgraded to gnome 3.14) on ArchLinux I can't print anymore. If I open the printing panel of gnome control center I get a message like (it's translated from Italian): "System service for printing seems not be…
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Printing two pages per sheet from the command line

Say I start off from a PDF document, say of 12 pages, viewed with evince. To produce another PDF of 6 sheets, with a page setup of two pages per side, I normally use the "Print to File" device listed in the ^P dialogue window. This works out…
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Mount printers at /dev/usb and still use CUPS

Due to a new version of CUPS, I suddenly lost the direct path to my printers that was previously available under /dev/usb/lpXXX. I used this to print directly from the command line. echo "test" > /dev/usb/lp0. After searching I found a way to fix…
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How do I make "black&white" the default?

When I print something (Firefox 5 but also other apps), the option "color" is always set to "Color (CMYK)". How do I make "monochrome" or "black & white" the default? This is a Kyocera FS-C5100DN with CUPS 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.3. [EDIT] Output of lpstat…
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Where is the printer default option configuration file?

I am using CUPS 1.6.1. I have a problem with printing the pages with one side only. Default option is "one-sided", as in the CUPS web interface configuration. But when I do the printing, it prints out "two-sided-long-edge" result. I want to…
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Why is my PostScript print quality so poor?

My wife and I downloaded PDF museum passes and printed them on the same PostScript laser printer. To my surprise, hers looked much better! On the left is the printout from her Mac, and on the right the one sent from my Debian Linux machine. I am…
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Do CUPS clients need to have PPDs installed locally?

Should CUPS clients need to have PPDs added locally, i.e., should I pass them to lpadmin -P? These clients print via a local print server to a remote print server (ipp://) which I assume is set up according to best practice (I do not administrate…
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