Packt is pleased to announce a new book on the Commmon Unix Printing System (CUPS) that teaches users to monitor and secure its server. Written by Ankur Shah, CUPS Administrative Guide will show users to manage printers through the command line and web interface.

Yesterday , I wanted to send some web pages to a friend . I decided that I will make a PDF document and send the pdf. I looked around on internet for information about a pdf printer. Several sources pointed to cups-pdf.

So you have one of those sophisticated office printer models with adjustable guides that allow you to use any weird media size (with some sensible min/max value for width and height)? And you don't know how to tell CUPS to use that size when printing? (Ah... you don't have such a printer, and you are about to skip this article?

This tutorial will explain howto setup Home print server using CUPS

Download and Install the driver

Type these at terminal.
1. Download the driver

Ubuntu has a bug in gnome-cups-manager with Color, so you must
restart cups. No other distro has this bug.

The Common UNIX Printing SystemTM, or CUPS, is the software you use to print from applications like the web browser you are using to read this page. It converts the page descriptions produced by your application (put a paragraph here, draw a line there, and so forth) into something your printer can understand and then sends the information to the printer for printing.

"In the wake of Apple's purchase of CUPS, there is a simple lesson to take away -- if you are a developer committed to open source and you wish for your contributions to always remain open, do not reassign copyright to an external party."

This how-to describes the process of setting up an intranet based print server using Ubuntu server. By using CUPS SAMBA and SWAT the final product is a webgui based solution to a headless print server.

There is one printer manufacturer though that as of last year has begun supporting Linux from top to bottom with their entire line-up of printers. Not only are they providing CUPS drivers, but also they are even printing Tux in the corner of every box they ship right besides the Windows and Apple logos. Do you know who we are talking about?