Setup sharing printer?

dickson iswslui at ust.hk
Thu Feb 24 01:31:12 PST 2011


> > Hi all,
> > I want to verify my understanding about sharing printer in CUPS-1.4.6.
> >
> > Q1 : I install CUPS-1.4.6 in a Solaris Server "Ser1" and setup several printers (with shared option). In other server "Ser2"( Linux or Solaris ), can I just use ipp to mount that target shared printer without installing cups again?
> >
> > Q2 : If answer for Q1 is "Yes", why do I just get a cover page and a strange character page (printer defined in server "Ser1") when I print a pdf in server "Ser2"?
> >
> > Q3 : In server "Ser1", I locally print a file that won't print a cover page. Why do I print a file from server "Ser2" that will get a cover page? How can I stop/disable this cover page?
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
>
>
> Q4 : About work flow of printing in a shared printer, please verify the printing steps as below:
>      a) run a print command locally to print a document in a shared printer
>      b) do the rendering locally first
>      c) send the "rendering done" document file to a shared printer
>      d) the cups server with that shared printer get the print job and directly send it to the printer without doing any extra processing
>       Is it right?



Can anyone help for these questions? Thanks in advance.




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