Configuration of CUPS is dependent on the type of printer and can be complex. Generally, PostScript printers are easier. For detailed instructions on configuration and use of CUPS, see . The Software Administrators Manual and Software Users Manual are particularly useful. For non-PostScript printers to print with CUPS you need to install to convert PostScript to raster images and a driver (e.g. from ) to convert the resulting raster images to a form that the printer understands. Foomatic drivers use Ghostscript to convert PostScript to a printable form directly, but this is considered to be a hack by CUPS developers. During the install, CUPS created the startup file /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups. The file works, but you may want to change it to a more conventional LFS startup file: cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups << "EOF" #!/bin/sh # Begin $rc_base/init.d/cups # Start or stop the CUPS server based upon the first argument to the script. . /etc/sysconfig/rc . $rc_functions case $1 in start) echo "Starting CUPS Printserver..." loadproc /usr/sbin/cupsd ;; stop) echo "Stopping CUPS Printserver..." killproc cupsd ;; reload) echo "Reloading CUPS Printserver..." reloadproc /usr/sbin/cupsd ;; restart) $0 stop sleep 1 $0 start ;; status) statusproc cupsd ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|reload|restart|status}" exit 1 ;; esac # End $rc_base/init.d/cups startup script. EOF Create the symbolic links to this file in the relevant rc.d directory with the following commands: cd /etc/rc.d/init.d && ln -sf ../init.d/cups ../rc0.d/K00cups && ln -sf ../init.d/cups ../rc2.d/S99cups && ln -sf ../init.d/cups ../rc3.d/S99cups && ln -sf ../init.d/cups ../rc5.d/S99cups