Setting Up the CUPS 173Setting Up the CUPSWhen you want to configure the UNIX printing using CUPS, you can use LPR printing or IPPprinting.When printing using CUPS, the output paper size cannot be specified. If you want to specify theoutput paper size, please use the UNIX filter.About CUPSThis section describes the behavior, options, and installation method of the CUPS printer driverfor the equipment. The behavior of the printer driver presented in this specification is consistentwith CUPS v1.1.15. The driver may appear and/or operate slightly differently in the different ver-sions.In reality, the file supplied in this package is not really a printer driver it is actually a PostScriptPrinter Description (PPD) file.Development EnvironmentThe provided CUPS printer driver is supported on the following UNIX workstation.y Red Hat 8.0 CUPS 1.1.18Implementation MethodThis driver consists of a PPD file that works in conjunction with an interface like XPP, KPrinter,etc. It can also be used on OSX in the same way that it is used on Linux, but this is not recom-mended.Supplied ComponentsThere is one supplied component, a PPD file called “Oce_EST450_452_CUPS.gz” or“Oce_EST280_282_CUPS.gz”. It has been compressed using gzip. It does not need to beuncompressed for Linux to use the PPD file and so it should be left compressed.The user needs root privileges to place the PPD file in the default location. The default locationfor the standard CUPS PPD files is:/usr/share/cups/model/OceConfiguring UNIX Printing Using CUPSYou can configure the CUPS for LPR printing or IPP printing.Installing the CUPS for LPR PrintingThe PPD must first be copied onto the local machine, the printer installed, and then the PPDconfigured. The printer is then installed and configured using CUPS via the browser.The PPD is placed in the “/usr/share/cups/model/Oce” directory (which will require root privi-leges and the Oce directory may need to be created). The PPD can be simply copied to theappropriate directory and the CUPS daemon re-started.
