Talk:CUPS

Sources and structure

Sources

• LinuxKongress2002 CUPS tutorial
• UPnP standards
• Printer Device V 1.0 and Printer Basic Service V 1.0
• CUPS homepage
• CUPS filter chart
• Chapter 19. CUPS Printing Support
• http://www.cups.org/sam.html#CLIENT_AUTO
• Eric Raymond: the Horror of CUPS

Structure

1. Lead section
2. Overview
3. History
4. References
5. External links

Note to all

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)

Welcome to open source. ✈ James C. 23:58, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Nope. Welcome to #debian. Other channels were fine. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:19, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Baseline revision

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)

NO CUPS?!?!

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."

OS X

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)

Done: I gave it a stab. However, I think for the most part, It goes through OS X's printer management software which relies on CUPS, then exports it to CUPS.

Some history notes

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

Great to know! Thanks Andew, when I get the chance I'll update the article :-) Ta bu shi da yu 21:01, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

CUPS 1.2

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)

Ink management: clean nozzles, how much ink left, which cartridge is empty...

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)

Technical info, too many sub-headers

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)

Hmm... the UI section could probably be refactored. However, where is the redefinition and overlinkage? I wrote the article, so I can't see it - but probably only because I'm too close to it. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:29, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

On Portal:Free software, CUPS is currently the selected article

(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)

The selected article box has been updated again, CUPS has been superceded by OpenSolaris. Gronky 15:35, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

GA Pass

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   a (fair representation): b (all significant views):

5. It is stable.

   

6. It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.

   a (tagged and captioned): b lack of images (does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have fair use rationales):

7. Overall:

   a Pass/Fail:

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)

Fair use rationale for Image:Fedora-CUPS-gui.png

Image:Fedora-CUPS-gui.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 10:18, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:10, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Network Software and ports

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.