[cups.general] Setup sharing printer?

[Bryan Mason]

On 02/25/2011 09:46 AM, Bryan Mason wrote:
> On 02/24/2011 01:31 AM, dickson wrote:
>>>> 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?
>
> CUPS should be installed on both systems (server "Ser1" and client
> "Ser2"). The printer will need to be added to the client ("Ser2") or
> BrowsePoll will need to be added to the client's CUPS configuration
> file.
>
> See http://cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/sharing.html
>
>>>> 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?
>
> I think this is covered in the following documentation
>
> http://cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/man-lpadmin.html
>
> look for "job-sheets-default". I've never used cover pages myself,
> but it looks like the right option to me. You can also change this
> option using the CUPS Web UI (http://<hostname>:631/).
>
>>> 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?
>
> That's a good question that I've never completely
> understood. Hopefully someone else will comment on that.

I think this may have been answered in:

     http://cups.org/newsgroups.php?s22381+gcups.general+v22397+T0

Where Michael said:

     when you use browsing or local "raw" queues pointing at the
     server, all of the filtering (and thus all of the page logging)
     will happen on the server.

So from that I would conclude that if you add the printer to the local 
client using the Web UI, or lpadmin, or another utility such as 
system-config-printer, then the filters will be invoked on the local 
client and what's sent to the remote CUPS server is suitable for sending 
directly to the printer.  However, if you use browsing (with BrowsePoll) 
then the file is sent directly to the CUPS server without any 
conversion, and the server is responsible for filtering the content into 
something suitable for the printer.

~ Bryan