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Quick Info Current Edition: 1st CUPS: Common UNIX Printing System is the definitive guide to the Common UNIX Printing System. These pages provide access to the example code in the book as well as corrections and updates since the book's publication. The CUPS book, published by SAMS Publishing, may be purchased from Amazon.com. Note, however, that the companion CD is not provided with the book and is no longer available from Easy Software Products. The sources from the original companion CD are provided here instead. In this book you'll learn the technology underlying the Common UNIX Printing System, the premier printing system for UNIX/Linux. The book covers everything including configuration and day-to-day use of your printers, the Internet Printing Protocol, and how to program for the Common UNIX Printing System. The book also provides a complete reference for CUPS and IPP that no system administrator or developer should be without! In CUPS: Common UNIX Printing System, you will learn how to... Install and configure CUPS on your system Manage printers and printer classes on servers Manage printing from client systems Print files and manage printer options Learn how the Internet Printing Protocol interacts with CUPS and your applications Develop applications using the CUPS API Create file filters to support new file formats Develop printer drivers to support new printers Program backends to communicate with printers Utilize notifiers to send important messages to end-users

Table of Contents Introduction [ Read ] Part 1 1 - Introduction to CUPS 2 - Compiling and Installing CUPS 3 - Setting Up Printers and Classes 4 - Printing with CUPS 5 - Server Configuration 6 - Client Configuration Part 2 7 - Overview of IPP 8 - Anatomy of an IPP Request 9 - Printer Objects 10 - Job Objects 11 - Subscription Objects 12 - CUPS Extensions to IPP Part 3 13 - Overview of CUPS Programming 14 - Using CUPS API Functions 15 - Sending IPP Requests Using CUPS 16 - Writing File Filters for CUPS 17 - Writing Printer Drivers for CUPS 18 - Writing Backends for CUPS 19 - Writing Notifiers for CUPS Part 4 A - Configuration File Directives B - IPP Reference C - CUPS Constants D - CUPS Structures E - CUPS Functions F - Common UNIX Printing System License Agreement Index