cups-filters

OpenPrinting CUPS filters, backends, and cups-browsed

Contains backends, filters, and other software that was once part of the core CUPS distribution but is no longer maintained by Apple Inc. In addition it contains additional filters and software developed independently of Apple, especially filters for the PDF-centric printing workflow introduced by OpenPrinting and a daemon to browse broadcasts of remote CUPS printers and makes these printers available locally. Since Ghostscript version 9.10 the CUPS filters gstoraster and gstopxl are removed from Ghostscript. Those filters are now provided by cups-filters. Since cups-filters version 1.0.42 foomatic-rip is also provided by cups-filters. Since CUPS >= 1.6 the CUPS Browsing functionality is dropped in CUPS. The OpenPrinting cups-browsed is a daemon running in parallel to the CUPS daemon to provide again basic CUPS Browsing functionality. This way basic CUPS Browsing works on clients with CUPS >= 1.6 when there are remote CUPS servers of CUPS version 1.5 and older in the network. Load-balancing (what CUPS <= 1.5 did via implicit classes) is not supported with cups-browsed.