KUPS is a CUPS administrator for the KDE desktop. It works under Linux. Other platform may be supported though not tested
Features:
- let you manage printers (add, remove, pause, enable)
- let you manage jobs (test printer, remove)
KUPS is distributed under GPL
CUPS-filters
What’s CUPS?
CUPS is a new printing system for UNIX(Linux) that puts printing in
UNIX closer than the one in Windows.
With CUPS you can:
- Print on local serial and parallel printers
- Print on an existing LPD daemon on a remote computer
- Print on SMB (Windows) printers
- Print on IPP printers (IPP=Internet Printing Protocol)
CUPS is backward compatible, so existing applications that use LPD, LP(SysV) or LPR(BSD) to print, can be used without any changes.
On the application side, with CUPS you can print using LP or LPR (the old fashion) or using CUPS API that provide high level functions to print.
All this is licensed under the GPL/LGPL
For more informations, go and see www.cups.org
What's the problem with CUPS?
CUPS is a wonderful piece of code, the only drawback is that there
is only comercially available filters available (www.easysw.com).
There is only filters available for HP LaserJet and HP DeskJet printers
given as an example to write new filters.
The CUPS-filters address this issue by providing a generic filter
to print using GNU GhostScript. It's a collection of PPD files with a shell
script based generic filter.
Which filters are available at the moment using CUPS-filters?
Not much at the moment. The list will be maintain as up-to-date as
possible her:
LaserJet
laserjet.ppd (given with CUPS)
Deskjet
deskjet.ppd (given with CUPS)
LaserJet
hp_laserjet_std.ppd (using GS)
Download
The filters are only available as a TarBall (.tar.gz) file. You can
download it there
ChangeLog
V 0.1
Initial release
Bugs
Please, submit them to me
CUPS related bugs must be submitted to CUPS team at www.cups.org,
not to me. I'm not related in CUPS
Howto make a new filter using Generic GS CUPS filter (CUPS-filters)
Making a new filter for your printer is not difficult. Someone without
programmation knowledge can do it in 30-100 minutes. Just follow the instructions
there
Howto install CUPS on my system
CUPS is in beta test now. The final version is not yet planned but
we will not wait long time until it's first released.
To install it, follow the instaructions there
Done?
When you are done with the install, mail
me that it worked for you (or not worked, I'll be happy to help you!)
Then mail me the PPD file
you created (if you created one!) so I can add it in the distribution and
others can use it.
