Differences Between Trusted Extensions Printing
in Oracle Solaris 10 and Oracle Solaris 11
The default printing protocol for Oracle Solaris 10 is the LP print service.
The default for Oracle Solaris 11 is the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). For a
comprehensive guide to CUPs in Oracle Solaris, see Configuring and Managing Printing in Oracle Solaris 11.2
.
The following table lists salient differences between the CUPS and LP printing
protocols.
Table 19-1 CUPS – LP Differences
| | |
|---|
IANA port number
| 631
| 515
|
Sided printing
| Single-sided
| Double-sided
|
Cascade printing
| Must share the printer on the print server
| Must configure the route to the printer
|
Accessing network printers
| Must be able to successfully ping the IP address
of the printer and print server
| Must configure the route to the printer
|
Remote print jobs
| Cannot print without labels
| Can print without labels
|
Adding a remote printer to a client
| lpadmin -p printer-name -E \
-v ipp://print-server-IP-address/
printers/printer-name-on-server
| lpadmin -p printer-name \
-s server-name
|
Enabling and accepting the print server
| lpadmin –E option
| accept and enable commands
|
PostScript protection
| Provided by default
| Requires an authorization
|
Enabling banner pages
| –o job-sheets=labeled option
| Provided by default
|
Disabling banner and trailer pages
| –o job-sheets=none option
| –o nobanner option
|
lp -d printer file1 file2
| One banner page and one trailer page per print job
| A banner and a trailer page for each file in a print job
|
Label orientation on job pages
| Always portrait
| Always the orientation of the job
|
Print services
| svc:/application/cups/
scheduler
.../in-lpd:default
| svc:/application/print/
service-selector
.../server
.../rfc1179
.../ipp-listener
svc:/network/device-discovery/
printers:snmp
|
|