According to Paul Smedley's UNIX ports for OS/2 and eComStation website http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/
CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) has been updated to 1.3.2.  Also includes Ghostscript 8.62 and Gutenprint 5.1.98.2  More information can be found  at http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort

The main CUPS site (non-OS/2) is http://www.cups.org/
"CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX®-based operating systems. It was developed by Easy Software Products and is now owned and maintained by Apple Inc. to promote a standard printing solution. It is the standard printing system in Mac OS® X and most Linux® distributions.

CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues and adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real-world printing."

DOWNLOAD [Note: This is a 51MB file.  And at that it only includes the language Gutenprint ppd files.] http://download.smedley.info/cups-1.3.2-gplgs-8.62-gutenprint-5.1.98.2-os2-20080605.zip

REQUIREMENTS:
Ghostscript and Gutenprint require the LIBC 0.6.3 runtime dll from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip
CUPS is built using a custom libc064x.dll - a copy of which can be downloaded from http://download.smedley.info/libc064x.zip

CHANGES since the last release:
 1) Updated to GPL GHostscript 8.62
 2) Updated to Gutenprint 5.1.98.2 (AKA 5.2.0-beta2)
 3) Recompiled CUPS using libc064x in the hope that the spawn fixes help make cupsd more stable

There is a eCups mailing list at Netlabs which can be viewed via Gmane at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.ecups.devel

Please, please post feedback.  A list of printers that Gutenprint supports can be found at http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php3

Further details on using CUPS on OS/2 or eComStation can be found at http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups or in the readme.os2 file in the download package.

If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation either via Paypal using the  link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys Online Store http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/


From: Mark Dodel
Source: OS2VOICE.org

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