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System Administration Guide: Printing Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
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System Administration Guide: Printing Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
1. Introduction to Printing in the Oracle Solaris Operating System
CUPS Replaces the LP Print Service as the Default Print Service
Access to Print Management Tools From the GNOME Desktop
Privilege Requirements for Using Print Commands
Overview of the Oracle Solaris Printing Architecture
Implementation of the Open Standard Print API
Definition of a Print Server and a Print Client
Description of the Internet Printing Protocol
Description of the RFC-1179 Printing Protocol
IPP Compared to the RFC-1179 Protocol
Description of the SMB Protocol
CUPS Support in Oracle Solaris
Description of Oracle Solaris Print Manager
Description of the LP Print Service
2. Planning for Printing (Tasks)
3. Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS (Tasks)
4. Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using Print Manager for LP (Tasks)
5. Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using Oracle Solaris Print Manager (Tasks)
6. Setting Up Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)
7. Administering Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)
8. Customizing LP Printing Services and Printers (Tasks)
9. Administering the LP Print Scheduler and Managing Print Requests (Tasks)
10. Administering Printers on a Network (Tasks)
11. Administering Character Sets, Filters, Forms, and Fonts (Tasks)
12. Administering Printers by Using the PPD File Management Utility (Tasks)
13. Printing in the Oracle Solaris Operating System (Reference)
14. Troubleshooting Printing Problems in the Oracle Solaris OS (Tasks)
Note - Starting with the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release, CUPS is the default print service. The standard network printing protocol that is used with CUPS is IPP. For more information, see Chapter 3, Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS (Tasks).
The printing architecture in the Oracle Solaris OS uses network printing protocols to communicate with print services in following ways:
Client-to-server communications
Server-to-printer communications
Oracle Solaris provides applications, toolkits, printing commands, and an application programming interface that interacts with print services. This API is called the PAPI. The PAPI consists of a front-end API implementation that dynamically loads back end print service or protocol modules that communicate directly with print services. These print services contain the print job or print queue that is being acted upon. Client-to-server communications include the RFC-1179 and IPP protocols, as well as support for communicating with a local LP print service. For server-to-printer communications, the network printing protocol support enables the print service to transmit print jobs directly to network-attached printers.
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