System Administration Guide: Solaris Printing

Common UNIX Printing System

Solaris Express Community Edition, build 87: The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS), Version 1.3.6, is now part of the Solaris OS distribution.

The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is a modular printing system that enables a system to function as a print server. A system that is running CUPS is a host that can accept print requests from client systems, process the requests, then send them to the appropriate printer.

To facilitate this support in the Solaris OS, the following interfaces have been introduced:

For more information, see the CUPS documentation page, at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/Documentation/cupsprint/. The complete set of CUPS documentation is also accessible from a CUPS server on a host that is running CUPS by typing http://localhost:631/help/ in a web browser.