My CUPS Runneth Over

摘要

Included with Mac OS X since the release of Jaguar, the Common Unix Printing System, CUPS, gives a system administrator great flexibility and power. Many Unix system administrators are quite familiar with the intricacies of this system. Mac OS X takes advantage of this flexibility, while at the same time providing a very simple interface for printer management. In this article, we will delve deeper, examining the command line for use in printer management in OS X. As an added bonus, managing printers from the command line works both on Macintosh OS X and Macintosh OS X Server! Let's begin by recapping the printer interface as it appears in Tiger.