Operating system‎: ‎Unix-like‎, ‎WindowsInitial release‎: ‎June 1999Developer(s)‎: ‎Apple Inc. CUPS is based on the emerging RFC based standard ‘Internet Printing Protocol’ (IPP) and on the verge of becoming the default printing system for a number of .

The CUPS web utility is one project that many Linux users simply can’t live without. Based on the Internet Printing Protocol (IIP), CUPS has . I am not sure that such a system is needed in a pure Linux environment, where the standard Berkely LPD provides this functionality, but CUPS .

Modern Linux distributions have everything prepared for using most. Each CUPS Raster driver program will also have one or more PPD files . Currently most Linux distros and MacOS X use CUPS (Common UNIX Print System) for printing. CUPS is also available on AIX, FreeBS . This part of the process is very similar, if not identical, to configuring CUPS printers on other UNIX -based operating systems, such as a Linux distribution.