Print Spooler Software

To handle the spooling of print jobs to the printers, we currently use a package named CUPS, (the Common UNIX Printing System) from Easy Software Products. CUPS accepts a variety of different file formats, and automatically converts them to PostScript before sending the file to the printer. If you discover a file type which CUPS cannot convert properly, please send e-mail to csstaff@cs.princeton.edu.

In addition, this spooler software allows you to delete a print request from any system, as long as the user name is the same as the one used to submit the print job. So, should you need to delete a job which has not yet printed, you do not need to be on the same system from which you submitted it.

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