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I suggest that noone tries to get help on #debian on the Freenode IRC server. I went there looking for a bit of assistance, and immediately got mistaken for another user and got told to piss off. Then when I asked for help about the CUPS filtering system, or a pointer to info, I got told to RTFM. I have. Extensively. So I told them that I had and I was just a bit confused about the filtering system and what calls it. Then I got told that it was a debian channel and not a cups channel. At about that point I noticed that they were abusing some other user, so I said my goodbyes and left the channel. So basically, #debian appears to be filled with elitist knob-heads. I would advise that you leave them to their own little world. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:03, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I'm going to start my baseline revision using this article as it's source. See CUPS/Proposed baseline. - Ta bu shi da yu 01:00, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I think this sucks, because I am in need of information on cups. not some printing system, but cups! I am researching the innovation of cups, so i put "cups" into wikipedia's search engine, and what I get is a printing system? what's up with that?!?
If you are looking for information on "cup," the drinking vessel, enter "cup" into the search engine. Generally, anytime you want information on something, it is better to not use the plural form of the word. So, for example, if you want information on engines, you enter, "engine," not "engines" (which in this case will redirect you to "engine." The reason you were directed here is because you used the plural form of the word "cup" which also happens to be an anacronym for a printing system. Please note the note at the top of the page helping wayward people such as yourself who are looking for "cup."
I realise there is no information on this. I think it needs to be discussed, but I don't own a Mac. Anyone want to give this a stab? - Ta bu shi da yu 00:43, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
1.) CUPS 1.0 was released in the fall of 1999. It was in alpha and beta for almost two years prior to this release.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/10/01/1632200.shtml
Many don't know that when it was in alpha, that we tried the LPD route but found many road blocks of trying to implement a common system that would work on *all* platforms. The main problem was that each vendor's implementation of the printing system was too different from each other. We turned quickly to the standard, IPP to rectify this issue.
When it was in beta:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-09-014-10-NW-SM http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-11-018-10-NW-SM
3.) Many Linux vendors have adopted CUPS as either their primary or secondary printing system.
4.) Apple Computers has adopted CUPS as their printing system.
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L68+I10+T+P1+Qapple
5.) Developed in-house by the company, Easy Software Products. Michael Sweet and Andrew Senft are co-owners of the company.
- Andrew Senft
CUPS 1.2 has been released. Someone familiar with CUPS could update this page with the relevant features of the new release, and take new screenshots. Eventually, I'll do this work but I'll need some time to do research on this subject. GhePeU 22:15, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm missing a note on how to do all the above (and more ink/printer management related items), that you can usually find in a windows driver. My printer blinks "ink", I changed the cartridge and it still blinks. I have no idea what is wrong. Does anyone know more about this, please? THANKS -- Michael Janich 06:02, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
This is a nice resource, but it could do with some stylistic cleanup work. In particular, work needs to be done in ensuring that terms are explained (and linked) clearly and on one occasion only. There's quite a lot of redefinition and overlinkage. The section on UIs is also a bit long, and I'm not sure we need screenshots of every distro-brewed front end. Chris Cunningham 11:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
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It might be a good idea to expand the references in some sections, where there are hardly or no inline citations. There are some red links in the article too, that should be removed. All in all, sufficient for GA status. Martijn Hoekstra 13:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
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I would suggest that all network based software show the ports: input/listen port: 515 control/http port: 631 output port: not cited in article
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While the diagram shows how complex the filter system is and there is a lot of text devoted to it, I still think that something is missing concerning the spooler itself. Under System V you can write your own filter and use the spooler to serialize access to devices. It seems that you can do that in CUPS but there is no mention to the method to avoid the filtering. Consider the lot of applications which generate files in PCL5 or in PostScript and therefore need no filtering but the ability to send the files to some printer. There are even printers which can process directly PDF files. There must be a method to configure the system in a way that allows sending the file directly to the printer if the selected printer supports that.
Consider as well the possibility to sending files to some device (a modem to send sms?) in which you need perhaps to build a simple filter which deals with the device. -- Mcovas ( talk) 10:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Those editors who use CUPS as a PDF printer on Ubuntu can add this userbox to their userpage if they so desire!
If anyone would like other CUPS userboxes (for other distros or uses), I would be happy to make them up for you, please just leave a request here on this talk page. - Ahunt ( talk) 17:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was moved to CUPS. Aervanath ( talk) 14:15, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Common Unix Printing System → CUPS — The project is being renamed to "CUPS" without the words since Unix is a registered trademark of the X/Open Group. Right now "CUPS" redirects to "Common UNIX Printing System", but we should switch that around and make "CUPS" the main page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Printman ( talk • contribs) 06:26, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
*Oppose We definitely need to see a reliable reference to show that this is the case case first. -
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talk) 12:21, 5 June 2009 (UTC) *Support - Okay I am convinced seeing the CUPS website, however I think that the change in name should be described in the article to give a historical perspective. -
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Review and confirm B-class per request. Airplaneman talk 05:10, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
From digging around it looks like CUPS started life under the AFPL in its beta versions but switched to the GPL in version 1.0b3 (as seen on http://freshmeat.net/projects/cups/releases/4458 and by poking through http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/tags/ ) and was GPL for its 1.0 release. Does anyone know when 1.0b3 was actually "released" though as the timestamps on sourceforge seem weird...
82.69.60.196 ( talk) 09:20, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Mandriva was pulled off the shelf from Mandriva.com Perhaps Mageai, it's current existing fork hosts a similar tool. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swestlake ( talk • contribs) 05:32, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
This article still describes PostScript as being the central format for conversions inside CUPS. From what I read in http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/pdfasstandardprintjobformat#Introduction, it is no longer the case (since 2006), it is PDF now. I do not feel secure enough to change that myself.
The References 7-9 are no longer reachable. I found some design information at https://www.cups.org/doc/spec-design.html. I am not sure if this is the correct replacement... May be all the references should be checked! -- HH1946 ( talk) 19:09, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
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I suggest that noone tries to get help on #debian on the Freenode IRC server. I went there looking for a bit of assistance, and immediately got mistaken for another user and got told to piss off. Then when I asked for help about the CUPS filtering system, or a pointer to info, I got told to RTFM. I have. Extensively. So I told them that I had and I was just a bit confused about the filtering system and what calls it. Then I got told that it was a debian channel and not a cups channel. At about that point I noticed that they were abusing some other user, so I said my goodbyes and left the channel. So basically, #debian appears to be filled with elitist knob-heads. I would advise that you leave them to their own little world. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:03, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I'm going to start my baseline revision using this article as it's source. See CUPS/Proposed baseline. - Ta bu shi da yu 01:00, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I think this sucks, because I am in need of information on cups. not some printing system, but cups! I am researching the innovation of cups, so i put "cups" into wikipedia's search engine, and what I get is a printing system? what's up with that?!?
If you are looking for information on "cup," the drinking vessel, enter "cup" into the search engine. Generally, anytime you want information on something, it is better to not use the plural form of the word. So, for example, if you want information on engines, you enter, "engine," not "engines" (which in this case will redirect you to "engine." The reason you were directed here is because you used the plural form of the word "cup" which also happens to be an anacronym for a printing system. Please note the note at the top of the page helping wayward people such as yourself who are looking for "cup."
I realise there is no information on this. I think it needs to be discussed, but I don't own a Mac. Anyone want to give this a stab? - Ta bu shi da yu 00:43, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
1.) CUPS 1.0 was released in the fall of 1999. It was in alpha and beta for almost two years prior to this release.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/10/01/1632200.shtml
Many don't know that when it was in alpha, that we tried the LPD route but found many road blocks of trying to implement a common system that would work on *all* platforms. The main problem was that each vendor's implementation of the printing system was too different from each other. We turned quickly to the standard, IPP to rectify this issue.
When it was in beta:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-09-014-10-NW-SM http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-11-018-10-NW-SM
3.) Many Linux vendors have adopted CUPS as either their primary or secondary printing system.
4.) Apple Computers has adopted CUPS as their printing system.
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L68+I10+T+P1+Qapple
5.) Developed in-house by the company, Easy Software Products. Michael Sweet and Andrew Senft are co-owners of the company.
- Andrew Senft
CUPS 1.2 has been released. Someone familiar with CUPS could update this page with the relevant features of the new release, and take new screenshots. Eventually, I'll do this work but I'll need some time to do research on this subject. GhePeU 22:15, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm missing a note on how to do all the above (and more ink/printer management related items), that you can usually find in a windows driver. My printer blinks "ink", I changed the cartridge and it still blinks. I have no idea what is wrong. Does anyone know more about this, please? THANKS -- Michael Janich 06:02, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
This is a nice resource, but it could do with some stylistic cleanup work. In particular, work needs to be done in ensuring that terms are explained (and linked) clearly and on one occasion only. There's quite a lot of redefinition and overlinkage. The section on UIs is also a bit long, and I'm not sure we need screenshots of every distro-brewed front end. Chris Cunningham 11:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
(2007-02-21) Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. I'm hoping this will attract some contributors to this important article. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was FOSDEM. Gronky 04:30, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
It might be a good idea to expand the references in some sections, where there are hardly or no inline citations. There are some red links in the article too, that should be removed. All in all, sufficient for GA status. Martijn Hoekstra 13:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
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I would suggest that all network based software show the ports: input/listen port: 515 control/http port: 631 output port: not cited in article
This could be added to all article on network software for consistency. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.131.23.218 ( talk) 16:26, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
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While the diagram shows how complex the filter system is and there is a lot of text devoted to it, I still think that something is missing concerning the spooler itself. Under System V you can write your own filter and use the spooler to serialize access to devices. It seems that you can do that in CUPS but there is no mention to the method to avoid the filtering. Consider the lot of applications which generate files in PCL5 or in PostScript and therefore need no filtering but the ability to send the files to some printer. There are even printers which can process directly PDF files. There must be a method to configure the system in a way that allows sending the file directly to the printer if the selected printer supports that.
Consider as well the possibility to sending files to some device (a modem to send sms?) in which you need perhaps to build a simple filter which deals with the device. -- Mcovas ( talk) 10:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Those editors who use CUPS as a PDF printer on Ubuntu can add this userbox to their userpage if they so desire!
If anyone would like other CUPS userboxes (for other distros or uses), I would be happy to make them up for you, please just leave a request here on this talk page. - Ahunt ( talk) 17:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was moved to CUPS. Aervanath ( talk) 14:15, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Common Unix Printing System → CUPS — The project is being renamed to "CUPS" without the words since Unix is a registered trademark of the X/Open Group. Right now "CUPS" redirects to "Common UNIX Printing System", but we should switch that around and make "CUPS" the main page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Printman ( talk • contribs) 06:26, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
*Oppose We definitely need to see a reliable reference to show that this is the case case first. -
Ahunt (
talk) 12:21, 5 June 2009 (UTC) *Support - Okay I am convinced seeing the CUPS website, however I think that the change in name should be described in the article to give a historical perspective. -
Ahunt (
talk)
19:32, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Review and confirm B-class per request. Airplaneman talk 05:10, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
From digging around it looks like CUPS started life under the AFPL in its beta versions but switched to the GPL in version 1.0b3 (as seen on http://freshmeat.net/projects/cups/releases/4458 and by poking through http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/tags/ ) and was GPL for its 1.0 release. Does anyone know when 1.0b3 was actually "released" though as the timestamps on sourceforge seem weird...
82.69.60.196 ( talk) 09:20, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Mandriva was pulled off the shelf from Mandriva.com Perhaps Mageai, it's current existing fork hosts a similar tool. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swestlake ( talk • contribs) 05:32, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
This article still describes PostScript as being the central format for conversions inside CUPS. From what I read in http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/pdfasstandardprintjobformat#Introduction, it is no longer the case (since 2006), it is PDF now. I do not feel secure enough to change that myself.
The References 7-9 are no longer reachable. I found some design information at https://www.cups.org/doc/spec-design.html. I am not sure if this is the correct replacement... May be all the references should be checked! -- HH1946 ( talk) 19:09, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
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