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| == Printing ==
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| This wiki contains information related to the Cups and System-config-printing provided with Fedora.
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| ===CUPS===
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| The version of cups provided with Fedora is cups-1.4 and following are the features in general, Though there are about number of changes <br>
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| {{admon/note|note|Below document provides most used , and most noticeable changes}}
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| ====Web-Interface====
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| *The Administration Page provides more Advanced Operations like choice of Protocols (CUPS, LDAP) for sharing, Maximum number of
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| simultaneous clients , Shows Job Completed jobs
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| ====Networking====
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| * CUPS now uses "Bonjour (DNS-SD)" providing mDNS(multicast DNS) which supports Bonjour-based printer discovery
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| ====Scheduler====
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| *Scheduler now adds "authenticated" policy, So that certain IPP operations can be authenticated.On Fedora-11 the default policy is "default"
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| The scheduler provides "OpPolicy" directive which can be used to modify the policy. lpadmin command can also be used to set the policy to<br>
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| a particular printer using <code>-o printer-op-policy</code>
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| *the default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info"
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| *The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive to override the default paper size defined by the locale or libpaper configuration
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| *New ErrorPolicy "retry-current-job" is added, that retries the current job immediately
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| *Scheduler supports SSLOptions Directive in cupsd.conf which specifies the network address and port to Listen for secure connections
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| *Scheduler now supports new "FatalErrors" Directive to determine which kind of errors are fatal, The following kind of errors are currently recognized
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| none, all, browse, config (configuration syntax errors), log (log file creation errors), permissions (file permission errors ex: certifcate files and keys)
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| *Scheduler now passes hostname from the job was submitted as "job-originating-host-name" to filters and backends
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| *Scheduler now includes CUPS_FILETYPE, PRINTER_INFO, and PRINTER_LOCATION environment variables that is passed to filter or backend
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| *The scheduler now supports a test mode via the "-t" option, which can be used to test the syntax of cupsd.conf.
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| ===system-config-printer===
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| In this release, system-config-printer uses PolicyKit to control access to restricted CUPS functionality.
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| The following functions are controlled via PolicyKit policies currently:
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| * add/remove/edit local printers
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| * add/remove/edit remote printers
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| * add/remove/edit classes
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| * enable/disable printer
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| * set printer as default printer
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| * get/set server settings
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| * restart/cancel/edit a job owned by another user
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| * restart/cancel/edit a job
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