Oce im5530 Printing Manual - Setting Up The Cups

Setting Up the CUPS    197

Setting Up the CUPS

When you want to configure the UNIX printing using CUPS, you can use LPR printing or IPP 

printing.

When printing using CUPS, the output paper size cannot be specified.  If you want to specify the 

output paper size, please use the UNIX filter.

About CUPS

This section describes the behavior, options, and installation method of the CUPS printer driver 

for the equipment.  The behavior of the printer driver presented in this specification is consistent 

with 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 PostScript 

Printer Description (PPD) file.

Development Environment

The provided CUPS printer driver is supported on the following UNIX workstation.

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Red Hat 8.0 CUPS 1.1.18

Implementation Method

This 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 Components

There is one supplied component, a PPD file called “OCE_EST850_CUPS.gz”.  It has been 

compressed using gzip. It does not need to be uncompressed 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 location 

for the standard CUPS PPD files is:

/usr/share/cups/model/Oce

Configuring UNIX Printing Using CUPS

You can configure the CUPS for LPR printing or IPP printing.

Installing the CUPS for LPR Printing

The PPD must first be copied onto the local machine, the printer installed, and then the PPD 

configured. 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 the 

appropriate directory and the CUPS daemon re-started.

Installing the CUPS for LPR printing

1

Insert the Client Utilities CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.