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Printing

This wiki contains information related to the Cups and System-config-printing provided with Fedora.

CUPS

Cups is the default Print Spooler provided Fedora. 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
Below document provides most used , and most noticeable changes

Web-Interface:

• The web-interface has been given a new look , using php-cgi and not php.
• The new interface provides more improvements to add and modify printer configuration
• The Administration page provides more advanced operations like share, unshare, provides list of backends to choose from

IPP Support

• CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specifications
• CUPS supports the operation of downloading of files from print job using the "CUPS-Get-Document Operation"
• The scheduler and backend discovery interface support a device-location attribute where we can specify the location of the printer
• Support of hold jobs and releasing of jobs on hold

The cups web interface which is accessed through http://localhost:631 is been given new look

In this release, system-config-printer uses PolicyKit to control access to restricted CUPS functionality. The following functions are controlled via PolicyKit policies currently:

• add/remove/edit local printers
• add/remove/edit remote printers
• add/remove/edit classes
• enable/disable printer
• set printer as default printer
• get/set server settings
• restart/cancel/edit a job owned by another user
• restart/cancel/edit a job