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Printing

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


CUPS 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
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