Hollywood, MD (September 13, 2004) -- Easy Software Products today announced the 1.1.21 release of the Common UNIX Printing System ("CUPS"), an IPP/1.1-based printing system for UNIX®
CUPS 1.1.21 is primarily a bug fix and performance tuning release and includes fixes for the IPP, LPD, parallel, serial, and USB backends, authentication and status processing issues in the CUPS API, and various PostScript and PDF printing issues. The new release also adds support for Zebra label printers and IPP device URI options. CUPS is available at:
http://www.cups.org/CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX®-based operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Products to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces.
Drivers for thousands of printers are provided with our ESP Print Pro software, available at:
http://www.easysw.com/printpro/CUPS is licensed under the GNU General Public License and GNU Library General Public License. Please contact Easy Software Products for commercial support and "binary distribution" rights. Changes in CUPS v1.1.21: - The scheduler did not separate Digest authentication parameters with commas (Issue #882) - Fixed some problems with image printing to custom page sizes (Issue #891) - Removed the remaining scheduler code that did not use the "close-on-exec" file descriptor flag to speed up program invocations (Issue #890) - The "lpr -r" command removed the print file even if it was not printed. It now only removes the file if the job is successfully created (Issue #886) - Revamped the custom page size orientation fix (Issue #127) - The lp, lpq, lpr, and lpstat commands now report when an environment variable is pointing to a non-existent printer instead of just saying "no default destination" (Issue #879) - Queue names with 2 periods (e.g. "printer..2") were not supported (Issue #866)