CUPS-drivers

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 drivers available (www.easysw.com). There is only drivers available for HP LaserJet and HP DeskJet printers given as an example to write new drivers.
The CUPS-drivers address this issue by providing a generic driver to print using GNU GhostScript. It's a collection of PPD files with a shell script based generic driver.
 
 

Which drivers are available at the moment using CUPS-drivers?
A lot!!!

Quite every printer is supported except some Lexmark.
Download
The drivers are only available as a TarBalls (.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 to CUPS.

Howto make a new driver using Generic GS CUPS driver (CUPS-drivers)
Making a new driver 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 instructions 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.
 

CUPS and the CUPS logo are the trademark property of Easy Software products.
Adobe and PostScript are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc.
DeskJet, HP, LaserJet, and PCL are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.