Week 3 - Print Services

Question 1

What does CUPS stand for?

Answer 1

Common Unix Printing System

Question 2

What is CUPS?

Answer 2

A common, pre-installed print server on Linux

Question 3

What lets your users print through a web browser with no setup?

Answer 3

A cloud service provider

Question 4

What are printer languages?

Answer 4

they describe images on a screen to a printing device (so it can match and print what’s on screen)

Question 5

What are 2 of the most common printing languages?

Answer 5

1. Printer Control Language
2. PostScript

Question 6

What is a device-dependent printing language?

Answer 6

It means that both the printer and the computer are responsible for creating parts of the printed data

(PRINTING-device-dependent)

Question 7

What is device-independent printing language?

Answer 7

The computer is solely responsible for creating the printed data

Question 8

PCL is what type of printing language?

Answer 8

Printer Control Language is device-dependent

(output may not be the same on every printing device)

Question 9

PS is what type of printing language?

Answer 9

PostScript is device-independent

(output is the same on any printer)

Question 10

If an error arises when PS is used, then it’s usually an error with what?

Answer 10

the driver on the computer because it’s a device-independent printing language

Question 11

What does a virtual printer do?

Answer 11

Allows you to save a virtual copy of a file (print to PDF, Print to File)

shows up as a printer to OS

Question 12

What are 3 ways to share your printer?

Answer 12

1. Local printer share (print jobs are sent to the computer attached to the printer)
2. Network printers - directly attached to the network no sharing needed (security risk, wipe storage memory)
3. Print Servers - larger scale, accepts many jobs at once, or for a few printers shared by several people