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Leopard Technical Q&As: Printing
The Common Unix Printing System (CUP) is the de facto print spooler for Mac OS X. CUPS has a complete API that printer vendors can use to write printer drivers or provide other functionality for particular printer models. It provides complete printing services to most PostScript and raster printers.
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Gathering all PostScript Printer Descriptions (PPDs) (HTML)
QA1529: Describes a work around for an issue in PMCopyAvailablePPDs on Mac OS X 10.4 and below
 2008-08-08
Using PPD constraints with Paper Sizes (HTML)
QA1603: Describes the requirements for using PPD Constraints to constrain options against paper size.
 2008-08-08
Combinations of cupsColorSpace, cupsColorOrder and cupsBitsPerColor values supported by Mac OS X (HTML)
QA1368: Table of supported combinations of cupsColorSpace, cupsColorOrder and cupsBitsPerColor values supported by Mac OS X.
 2005-08-10
New PPD keywords available in Mac OS X version 10.3 (HTML)
QA1352: Describes the new PPD keywords available for CUPS filters in Mac OS X 10.3.
 2004-05-26
Tioga PostScript Printing Plugins in Mac OS X 10.2 (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
QA1085: Why Tioga printing plugins for PostScript printing aren't called on Mac OS X 10.2 and later.
 2003-07-14