Questions tagged [cups]
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Move print jobs in macOS Sonoma?
Every version of macOS I've used has allowed me to open the print queue and drag a print job from one printer to another queue. This is especially helpful when (for example) you accidentally send a ...
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Chrome doesn't see custom resolution of CUPS printer
I just bought a label printer (Zebra ZD420). There a no drivers for this printer, but Zebra says I should install and configure it via CUPS.
I set the default options for the printer in CUPS.
For the ...
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How Can I Recreate the CUPS _lpadmin (Print Administrator) group in MacOS X?
I was following this advice to add a user to the _lpadmin group on my system to stop getting a prompt to authenticate when trying to change print options.
Unfortunately, I clicked in the wrong place ...
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How to clear CUPS spool automatically?
When printing to HP printer, I noticed that all printed files are saved to /var/spool/cups.
Is it possible to avoid this from a privacy perspective?
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How to get supply levels of a printer via command line
I'm trying to get the supply levels of a printer via the command line. So far I was able to get some information with a lpoptions (marker-message property) command. The problem is that the status of ...
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Find my printer's configuration web page
I'm trying to set the timeout on my Brother laser printer so that it winds down a minute after printing and doesn't sit there and whine for 15. I know I can do this through its internal web page. But ...
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Can I print Latin and Cyrillic text and graphics on an Epson LQ-350 dot-matrix printer from my Mac?
I'm considering buying the Epson LQ-350 dot-matrix printer. I want to use it on my Mac in order to print
Latin text (ideally with Umlauts),
Cyrillic (Russian) text, and
(optionally) graphics (such as ...
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Can I use Apple cups as a programmable printer API?
My intent is to have a "fake printer" (Appple cups) show up on the user's desktop/Chrome browser (print settings) after it's added through a server ip/port. And it's not going to deal with ...
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Install foo2zjs Driver on MacOS X?
[Reposted from https://macosx.com/threads/foo2zjs-driver-for-hp-laserjet-1018.327123/ and https://askubuntu.com/questions/1345298/install-foo2zjs-driver-on-macos-x.]
I have a friend who uses MacOS X ...
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Reinstall Cups after unloading/removing its LaunchDaemon
On one of our laptops, we had popups about printer settings update 200 times per day.
It was getting really annoying and so without thinking about it enough, I've unload and remove cups service.
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How to turn off localhost web server
I've discovered by accident that my Mac is running a localhost web server. I typed "localhost" into Safari and got "It works!" I get the same result when I go to http://127.0.0.1:...
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How to add printer with lpadmin and have it show up in Printers and Scanners in System Preferences?
I am using Mojave, and I am able to add a printer using lpadmin. I can then print a test page to that printer using the CUPS web interface. Additionally, the printer is listed with lpstat -p. ...
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How to modify cupsd.conf on 50+ machines
I need to modify the cupsd.conf file (removal of PAUSE-PRINTER/RESUME-PRINTER) on 50+ machines to allow non-admin accounts to resume the print queue.
Is there a way I can script this (through ...
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How turn a folder into a print queue?
On MacOS, you can drop a PDF directly onto the window of a Printer's print queue, and it will be sent to print immediately (with the printer's default settings).
I'm looking for a way to do a similar ...
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Create driverless print queue in Mac OS 10.12+
I am trying to set up printers via bash script in Mac OS, using lpadmin with the -m everywhere option to let my CUPS server handle the jobs. This works fine from my Linux machines, however the Mac OS ...
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Shared printing is no longer working
I run a Mac mini as a server in a small company. With macOS Server. Also a print server with a few shared printers.
This is the error message in the CUPS log:
Unable to encrypt connection, internal ...
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lpr fails to print asking for manual paper feed
I use macOS High Sierra with a HP LaserJet Pro M12w printer. I can print regularly from macOS applications. However, when I print from lpr, the file remains enqueued with a message asking “Load paper ...
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How does one change default options in CUPS
I want to change default print settings in CUPS.
I'm mass printing PDF's through Finder and it won't use my preset in the printer options menu so I'm fiddling around in CUPS to see if that works. I ...
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PostScript Driver issues: "ERROR: invalid font" - where to find font download (Softfont) options?
I'm having a problem with some documents printing on my Dell C2665dnf Color MFP on macOS 10.13.x and beyond (ie, including 10.14 Mojave betas).
Sometimes a document only prints out:
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Cannot print anymore since upgrade to Macos 10.13.6
I was using Macos 10.13.4.
When I upgraded to Macos 10.13.6, I noticed my print jobs got stuck in the print queue so I deleted those print jobs and then I installed a newer version of the printer ...
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Best way to turn off cupsd?
I have a macOS 10.13 machine that is being used only for remote work, and has no need for printers. Printer Sharing is definitely turned off in System Preferences, and yet, cupsd is listening to a ...
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Can no longer log into CUPS web admin on macOS Mojave Beta?
I have a printer and I'm trying to set the default paper size. Normally, I can do this via the cups webadmin localhost:631
If you make any changes to a printer, it asks for your login credentials ...
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Share printer between Macs in different networks
I have one Mac Mini (running 10.11) with a HP P4015 printer attached via USB and shared via System Preferences => Sharing inside my network 10.161.5.x (IP range for machines attached to the cabled ...
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How does Mac gather printer information (mainly driver) after a printer is selected in the list of printers to add?
When we want to add a printer to mac, we go to "Printers and Scanners" in system preferences. There we click on "+" button and click on "Add Printer or Scanner". In new dialog with title "Add", we see ...
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How can I set up DNS for Bonjour and AirPrint to advertise printers across subnets
Several printers do not stay connected to clients--even though everything has static ip addresses--and they are not searchable across networks i.e. they do not appear with Bonjour.
Ideally I would ...
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sandboxd, pstopdf deny file-read-data and file-read-metadata
In attempting to get cups-pdf working in El Capitan, I'm running into the error that pstopdf errors out.
The system.log shows that the sandbox kernel extension is denying read access to the following ...
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What is the root username and password for CUPS 2.1.0
I don't remember creating one and I'm just trying to print in black and white.
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How do I revert the sudo less /private/etc/cups/printers.conf command?
I have used the above command to try and find my printer's address using the web.
Now I would like to revert this setting using terminal.
Can anyone help me with this?
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Print jobs cancelled if waiting too long?
I tend to send things to print, even when not connected to my printer (via usb). This allows it to print the minute I connect the printer, which is nice when I am on my laptop. It used to work, even ...
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How do I get the actual ip address of a printer in OSX Yosemite
I need to know the ip address of my printer from OSX to be able to configure it in my daughters Windows laptop. I tried the solution suggested in How do you get a printer's IP in lion? but I only ...
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How to make shared printing works on Yosemite within an IPv4 only network?
Network landscape
My network is made through Internet Sharing from a Mac: Bob hosting an USB printer: Clara. On this home network is a Mac: Alice which is usually printing on Clara through Bob.
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Change color in default options when printing on yosemite
We've got the following printer setup:
Driver: Brother MFC-L9550CDW-AirPrint (color, 2-sided printing)
Connection: dnssd://PRINTER._ipp._tcp.local./?uuid=e3248000-80ce-11db-8000-30055c4b125b
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Printer deamon creates hundreds of symlinks
Today I stumbled over hundreds of symbolic links in my OS X /tmp folder.
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lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 66B 10 Mai 11:42 554f27eaca409 -> /private/etc/cups/ppd/...
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Specification for CUPS printing options
I would like to ask if someone knows where can I find all the possible printing options the can CUPS send to backend/filter etc.
These are some of the possible options:
com.apple.print....
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Can't connect to print server
I've recently set up a print server with a Raspberry Pi and a Canon Pixma iP4850 printer using CUPS and have been able to print to it no problems with every Windows Computer in my house.
However, I ...
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How to print on a Yosemite managed printer from a Panther Mac?
A couple I know have two computers I'm supporting - one is a iMac which I recently upgraded from Snow Leopard (10.6) to Yosemite (10.10). The printer is attached to this machine. The other computer, ...
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sandboxd for CUPS backends in Mac OS X Yosemite
I am using a custom CUPS backend for printing on Mac OS X. The backend works by forwarding the print data to another machine (using ssh) and feeding the data to the printer from there. For this to ...
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After Yosemite, can't print; CUPS error_log: "/bin/bash: gs: command not found"
My printer stopped working since I upgraded to Yosemite. The print queue window says only "Stopped - 'Filter' failed". From /var/log/cups/error_log:
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D [28/Oct/2014:21:46:49 -0700] [Job 4] PID ...
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Compiling CUPS 2.0 on 10.9: what archflags to use?
I installed CUPS 2.0.0 (cups.org) but evidently I needed to include specific architecture flags. Now several things are broken on my mac (e.g. Word won't boot). Error messages reveal that the problem ...
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Mac printing error: paper size unresolvable conflict
I am trying to set duplex as the default for my printer. Many people have told me to just create a preset and use that but there are some apps that this doesn't work for, so I am looking for a ...
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Which printer software driver should I use?
When adding a printer in OS X, and assuming the printer is AirPrint enabled, which driver should I use: 1. the AirPrint driver or 2. the CUPS driver for that specific printer?
My assumption is that ...
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What is CUPS on port 631?
I recently ran an NMAP scan of my Mac's open ports and discovered port 631 (ipp) was open. Intrigued, I saw it was for the CUPS web interface, and after enabling it I found it had something to do with ...
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Where are CUPS backend scripts and filters stored on Mac OS X?
Where are CUPS backend scripts and filters stored on Mac OS X?
On linux they are in /usr/lib/cups/backend, but I can't find them on Mac OS x
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PDF from pdfLaTeX doesn't print correctly
I am trying to print a PDF file generated with pdfLaTeX, but the OS X (10.8) CUPS always shifts and scales the content of the page, without me having any chance to change that behavior.
To reproduce:
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How can I make the OS print dialog default to a particular preset?
Simply put, this is what I want: I want to take a unique printer preset that has already been made and make the OS default to it any time that particular printer is selected to be printed to.
I know ...
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Using SSH-LPR with Mac?
I'm looking for a way to add a printer to my MacBook that prints using the lpr command on a remote server. I have passwordless logins set up, and I found a script that appears to do what I need it to: ...
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Cannot access CUPS utilities after upgrade to Lion
Since upgrading to Lion, I cannot access any of the local functions in the CUPS web-based interface. The response I get is "Internal Server Error".
For example:
http://localhost:631/admin or http://...
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Printing to a Cups Server without using the local CUPS doesn't work since OS X Lion
With our new 21,5"-iMac, we bought the first Mac system for our Windows/Linux-oriented office. Hence we don’t have a lot of experience in using Mac OS X.
I started to set up everything and it ran ...
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Printing current date and time on each page
I'm often printing several versions of a document (e.g. a paper in progress). To keep track of the printouts I would like to print the date and time of printing onto each page, regardless of which ...
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What are the secret options of the PDF convert tool from OS X?
I recently discovered the /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert tool that is able to convert HTML, DOC, ... to PDF.
It works great but it has some optional arguments that are not documented: -a ...
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