[cups] Understanding Printing

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Jun 25 11:50 Helge Blischke wrote:
>> Am 25.06.2016 um 07:39 schrieb Andrew <anon_private at yahoo.com>:
>>
>> Can someone explain to me how printing works using cups?
>> For example, the path to the printer is
>>
>> usb://EPSON/Stylus%20SX100?serial=KQEZ387420&interface=1
>> But, there there appears to be no such folder on my hard disk,
>> so what is the path from the file to be printed to the printer?
>
> Look at
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
> for an overwiew of how cups works.

Therein see in particular the section
"The Backends"
and for details follow therein the link to
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Backends_to_Print_with_CUPS


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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