Printing with CUPS

Print servers allow local printing devices to be connected to a network and be shared among several users and departments. There are many advantages using such a system, including the lack of a need to buy dedicated printer hardware for each user, room, or department. The Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) is the de-facto standard for print servers on Linux, as well as Unix distributions including OS X. It is built with a typical client/server architecture, where clients in the network send print jobs to the centralized print server that schedules these tasks, then delegates and executes the actual printing on a printer that is locally connected to our printer server or sends the print job remotely to the computer that has the physical connection to the requested printer or to a standalone network printer. If you set up your printers within the CUPS system, almost all Linux and OS X printing application on any client in your network will be automatically configured to...