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Printing Enablement - Manjaro Linux

This document provides instructions for enabling printing capabilities in Manjaro Linux. It explains that CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) is used to manage printing. To enable printing, users must install the manjaro-printer package with pacman, which installs all required printer software. They then use systemctl to enable and start the CUPS service, which allows printing. The instructions also cover disabling CUPS if an alternative printing system is preferred.

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Printing Enablement - Manjaro Linux

This document provides instructions for enabling printing capabilities in Manjaro Linux. It explains that CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) is used to manage printing. To enable printing, users must install the manjaro-printer package with pacman, which installs all required printer software. They then use systemctl to enable and start the CUPS service, which allows printing. The instructions also cover disabling CUPS if an alternative printing system is preferred.

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20-11-2018 Printing Enablement - Manjaro Linux

Printing Enablement

Contents [hide] 
1 Overview
2 Installing the Printer Software
3 Enabling Printing Capabilities
4 Disabling Printing Capabilities
5 See Also

Overview
Printing is undertaken through the use
of CUPS (previously an acronym
for Common Unix Printing System). This is a popular
open source printing system used in most Linux
distributions due to its ease of use. As stated by
Wikipedia:

'CUPS consists of a print spooler and


scheduler, a filter system that converts
the print data to a format that the printer
will understand, and a backend system
that sends this data to the print device.
CUPS uses the Internet Printing
Protocol (IPP) as the basis for
managing print jobs and queues. '

Several software packages must be installed in order to


enable full and comprehensive printing capabilities on
your system. Particularly to assist new users, it is
possible in Manjaro to install everything that is required
with just a single command. However, once the
necessary software packages have been installed, it will
then also be necessary to actually enable printing
capabilities as well.

Installing the Printer Software


To just install the necessary software packages, enter the
following command:

sudo pacman -Sy manjaro-printer

Note that you may need to add yourself to the sys


group .

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sudo gpasswd -a yourusername sys

Enabling Printing Capabilities


Once the necessary software has been installed, to
enable printing capabilities, enter the following command:

sudo systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service

Once printing has been enabled, in order to start doing so


immediately without rebooting, input the command:

sudo systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service

Disabling Printing Capabilities


If for any reason you wish to disable CUPS (e.g. in order
to use an alternative printing system), open your terminal
and enter the following command:

sudo systemctl disable org.cups.cupsd.service

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