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Configure local and remote printers with CUPS

Configure local and remote printers with CUPS - Linux Tutorial

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Configure local and remote printers with CUPS

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- [Instructor] Early computers used line printers which printed one line at a time. The printers were slow, so there needed to be a print queue or spool to line up print jobs. The print queue or spool would line up print jobs from multiple computers and give them to the printer as the printer was available. Initially Linux used BSD's printing system, which comprised of a service called LPD, or Line Printer Daemon. There were clients such as LPR that would send print jobs to the print server using the LPD protocol. When graphics printing came out, there needed to be a way to tell the printer how to print graphical images. So the PostScript language was created. Users would create a graphical document in either black and white or color which would be saved as a PostScript file. PostScript is a programming language that describes the page. The computer would send this PostScript file to the printer. High end printers had…

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