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====Scheduler====
====Scheduler====


*Better Access control by providing support for adding multiple addresses in Allow and Deny lines, and now returns HTTP 403 (forbidden)<br>
*Scheduler now supports "authenticated" So that certain actions can be authenticated. Example: The print queues created can set "authenticated"<br>
for user who authenticates successfully , but doesn't have access to perform the operation
policy using "OpPolicy" parameter in printers.conf, so that jobs can be submitted only after successful authentication.
*Scheduler now supports an AccessLogLevel directive to control what is logged in the access_log file. There are 3 levels
*the default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info"
*The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive to override the default paper size defined by the locale or libpaper configuration
*New ErrorPolicy "retry-current-job" is added, that retries the current job immediately
*Scheduler supports SSLOptions Directive in cupsd.conf which specifies the network address and port to Listen for secure connections,
Loads Server CA certificates
*Scheduler now supports new "FatalErrors" Directive to determine which kind of errors are fatal, The following kind of errors are currently recognized
    none - No errors are fatal
    all - All of the errors below are fatal
    browse - Browsing initialization errors are fatal, for example failed binding to the CUPS browse port or failed connections to LDAP servers
    config - Configuration file syntax errors are fatal
    listen - Listen or Port errors are fatal, except for IPv6 failures on the loopback or "any" addresses
    log - Log file creation or write errors are fatal
    permissions - Bad startup file permissions are fatal, for example shared SSL certificate and key files with world- read permissions
   
    Multiple errors can be listed, and the form "-kind" can be used with all to remove specific kinds of errors. The default setting is config.  
 
*Scheduler now passes hostname from the job was submitted as "job-originating-host-name" to filters and backends
 
Ex: /var/log/cups/error_log:
[Job 3] argv[5]="job-uuid=urn:uuid:b9dd0f4f-5cec-3e25-49b2-09105a802370 job-originating-host-name=dhcp7-229.test.example.com"


    config; Log when printers and classes are added, deleted, or modified and when configuration files are accessed or updated.
Scheduler now includes CUPS_FILETYPE, PRINTER_INFO, and PRINTER_LOCATION environment variables that is passed to filter or backend
     actions; Log when print jobs are submitted, held, released, modified, or canceled, and any of the conditions for config.
     CUPS_FILETYPE  which tells the type of the file being printed: "job-sheet" for banner page and "document" for regular print
     all; Log all requests.
     PRINTER_INFO  which specifies the description of the printer
     The default access log level is actions.
     PRINTER_LOCATION specifies the Location of the printer


*the default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info"
*the scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive to override the default paper size defined by the locale or libpaper configuration
*Scheduler now supports ErrorPolicy that can be defined in printers.conf,  and now supports retry-current-job policy, that retries the current job immediately
* ERRORPOLICY WAS IN 1.2, ONLY RETRY-CURRENT-JOB IS NEW - Tim
*the scheduler now sets more PAM attributes to better support third-party authentication schemes.
*scheduler now coalesces configuration and state file changes to reduce the amount of disk activity and caches printer attributes to further reduce startup time.
*scheduler now starts the notifier for RSS subscriptions after creation so the feed is available immediately.


====Printer Drivers====
====Printer Drivers====

Revision as of 12:23, 20 June 2009

Printing

This wiki contains information related to the Cups and System-config-printing provided with Fedora.

CUPS

The version of cups provided with Fedora is cups-1.4 and following are the features in general, Though there are about number of changes

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Below document provides most used , and most noticeable changes

Web-Interface

  • The web-interface has been given a new look , using php-cgi and not php.
 * THESE ARE TWO SEPARATE THINGS: THE PHP-CGI SWITCH IS JUST A SMALL BUG FIX - Tim
  • The new interface provides more improvements to add and modify printer configuration
  • The Administration page provides more advanced operations like share, unshare, provides list of backends to choose from
* THE ADVANCED OPTIONS ARE CHOICE OF PROTOCOLS FOR SHARING, MAX CLIENTS, JOB HISTORY ETC - Tim

IPP Support

  • CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specifications
  • CUPS supports the operation of downloading of files from print job using the "CUPS-Get-Document Operation"
  • The scheduler and backend discovery interface support a device-location attribute where we can specify the location of the printer
  • Support of hold jobs and releasing of jobs on hold
* THIS IS NOT NEW

Networking

  • CUPS now uses "Bonjour (DNS-SD)" providing mDNS(multicast DNS) which supports Bonjour-based printer discovery

Scheduler

  • Scheduler now supports "authenticated" So that certain actions can be authenticated. Example: The print queues created can set "authenticated"

policy using "OpPolicy" parameter in printers.conf, so that jobs can be submitted only after successful authentication.

  • the default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info"
  • The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive to override the default paper size defined by the locale or libpaper configuration
  • New ErrorPolicy "retry-current-job" is added, that retries the current job immediately
  • Scheduler supports SSLOptions Directive in cupsd.conf which specifies the network address and port to Listen for secure connections,

Loads Server CA certificates

  • Scheduler now supports new "FatalErrors" Directive to determine which kind of errors are fatal, The following kind of errors are currently recognized
   none - No errors are fatal
   all - All of the errors below are fatal
   browse - Browsing initialization errors are fatal, for example failed binding to the CUPS browse port or failed connections to LDAP servers
   config - Configuration file syntax errors are fatal
   listen - Listen or Port errors are fatal, except for IPv6 failures on the loopback or "any" addresses
   log - Log file creation or write errors are fatal
   permissions - Bad startup file permissions are fatal, for example shared SSL certificate and key files with world- read permissions
   
   Multiple errors can be listed, and the form "-kind" can be used with all to remove specific kinds of errors. The default setting is config.
  • Scheduler now passes hostname from the job was submitted as "job-originating-host-name" to filters and backends

Ex: /var/log/cups/error_log: [Job 3] argv[5]="job-uuid=urn:uuid:b9dd0f4f-5cec-3e25-49b2-09105a802370 job-originating-host-name=dhcp7-229.test.example.com"

Scheduler now includes CUPS_FILETYPE, PRINTER_INFO, and PRINTER_LOCATION environment variables that is passed to filter or backend 

   CUPS_FILETYPE  which tells the type of the file being printed: "job-sheet" for banner page and "document" for regular print
   PRINTER_INFO  which specifies the description of the printer 
   PRINTER_LOCATION specifies the Location of the printer


Printer Drivers

  • USB printer support; the usb backend now uses libusb when available to allow it to better work with third-party scanning and printing solutions.
* NO, WE HAVEN'T ENABLED THAT IN FEDORA - Tim
  • the cupsPJLDisplay PPD attribute controls the PJL commands used to display the current user and job on the printer.
  • new generic PostScript and PCL drivers provide improved support for laser printers, the CUPS DDK drivers offer support for many HP DesignJet printers

and new label drivers offer support for Seiko and Tharo label printers.

  • A new CUPS command file filter for PostScript printers provides auto-configuration, self-test page, and status and supply level reporting functions.
  • The CUPS DDK is now a standard part of CUPS.

Filters

  • the standard image filters now support image files larger than 2GB.
  • the bundled banner ("job-sheets") pages are now generated using a new banner filter provides easier customization and better support for UTF-8 text.
  • the pdftops filter has been replaced with a wrapper program that runs the Xpdf, poppler, or Ghostscript PDF to PostScript utilities.
* IN FEDORA IT IS CONFIGURED TO USE POPPLER - Tim

system-config-printer

In this release, system-config-printer uses PolicyKit to control access to restricted CUPS functionality. The following functions are controlled via PolicyKit policies currently:

  • add/remove/edit local printers
  • add/remove/edit remote printers
  • add/remove/edit classes
  • enable/disable printer
  • set printer as default printer
  • get/set server settings
  • restart/cancel/edit a job owned by another user
  • restart/cancel/edit a job
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