[ale] CUPS Newbie

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Thu Oct 16 09:48:58 EDT 2003


Does the latest CUPS support moving print jobs from one queue to 
another?  I know that was stated as a design goal a while back.
Dow


Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:

> David S. Jackson wrote:
>
>> You'll find cups is quite a bit different from lpd.  Try pointing
>> your browser to http://localhost:631 on your cups box.  CUPS has
>> quite a fancy admin web interface that gives you a rather friendly
>> means of administering printers.  Also, check out www.cups.org.  My
>> desktop slack box prints to an old HP540C off a freebsd box, which
>> *does* run berkeley lpd.  Works fine, even though they're on
>> different network segments.
>>  
>>
>
> I'll second David's comments. I've been using CUPS at work
> on some Linux workstations for about 3 years and it's been
> just great! The web interface is about the best web admin tool
> I've seen (usually they're a big pain, but the CUPS one is very
> easy to use and understand). I'm now pushing to use CUPS on
> all of your UNIX boxes.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Jeff
>
>
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