[cups.general] Is the cups book out of date?

[Michael R Sweet]

Kyle Schmitt wrote:
>> Kyle Schmitt wrote:
>>> Is the cups book out of date, or has it been updated to reflect the capabilities and options in the most recent version of the system?
>> Aside from missing coverage of policies and new the port monitor,
>> back-channel, and side-channel stuff (for printer drivers), it is
>> still quite relevant and useful.
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>> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
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> Are the policies on the level of who can and can not use a printer/class, or do they delve into things like paper selection, orientation, quotas etc?

Policies are on the level of IPP operations; see:

     http://localhost:631/help/policies.html

Allowed/denied users, default media and orientation, and quotas are
all things you can set using the lpadmin command (man lpadmin).

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer