PrinterSetup is a flexible, open-source printer setup system. Released for the benefit of system administrators and Unix savvy users using CUPS, on OS X. Licensed under the GNU GPL v3

An addition to Bonjour print queue management. Use a combination of location, user, time to control printer queues. There is limited documentation availible. Software is in prototyping phase. Input is welcome. You can access additional information about PrinterSetup from the presentation available now at the official website.

PrinterSetup features scripts which:

• Cancel all jobs on all print queues.
• Start all print queues.

It is hoped the system will develop and become cross platform print queue setup tool. PrinterSetup is part of PrintingWorks: the open-source print-accounting system.

• Second generation of the dynamic printer management system for OS X.
Minor bugfixes.

• Implemented a dynamic printer management system for OS X.
• Various other minor improvements and bug fixes.

• Implemented system for generate PLF from PSF files.
• Improved support for UBUNTU LINUX.
• Improved the CUPS to PSF converter to support older versions of cups.
• Implemented an Apple script to generate PSF files from the local cups configuration.
• Minor Bug fixes.

• Implemented basic support for extracting PSF files from CUPS.
• Minor Debian LINUX compatibility improvements.

• Added experimental support for batch file generation as a means of print queue creation on Microsoft Windows.

• Fixed minor issue with the PrinterSetupLinkDroplet

• Improved login hook support for Mac OS 10.5

• Minor fixes
• New synchronization deployment system

• Minor temporary storage system fixes
• New experimental and automatic PrinterSetup Update deployment system

• Added the ability to specify the following print queue prefixes from the command line.
  • Printer Name
  • Printer Location
  • Printer Description
• Added a link generation droplet and script which will create symbolic links in the PrinterSetupLinks directory either PSFs or PLFs. This means you no longer need to use the terminal to create these links.
• Added PPD directory to the root of PrinterSetup.
• Fixed various issues
• Added a temporary printer processing option
• Added an option to remove disabled printers which have a matching queue name prefix.
• Improved support for the Management of printers using Apple package deployment.
• Still looking for windows developers!

• Ground Work for Basic Pykota Support.
• Added example PrinterSetupScripts for use in educational environments.
• Fixed various example scripts so they work with the version of CUPS's which is installed by default on Mac OS 10.5
• Still looking for windows developers!

• Improved Mac OS 10.4.x compatibility with the built-in Package deployment system.

• Minor improvements and bug fixes.
• Added support for RAW print queue creation.
• Added support to PSF options to state whether the cups queue should be shared or not shared upon creation or modification.
• Added command line options to override individual PSF publishing options.
• Updated the import and export scripts to support RAW queues
• Updated the import and export scripts to support the additinal publishing options

• Minor improvements and bug fixes.
• Added example scripts to assist with the creation of PSF and PLF links for package deployment.
• Minor changes to the "ExampleFiles" folder structure.

• Improvements to various example scripts.
• Apple package driver deployments improvements.
• Moved to the GNU GPL v3

• Improvements to various example scripts.
• Basic Mac OS X 10.5 Support
• Apple package creation example included
• Still looking for windows developers!

• Improvements to various example scripts.
• Minor bug fixes.
• Basic Mac OS X 10.5 Support
• Import and Export for SimplePrint CSV file format
• Import and Export for printer-setup PSI file format
• Basic native support for printer-setup PSI file format
• Still looking for windows developers!

• More helpful Scripts.
• Minor updates.
• Still looking for windows developers!

• Additional helpful scripts.
• Improved Debian support.
• Additional minor updates.
• Script to automate building PSF (printer setup files).
• Still looking for windows developers!

• Officially part of PrintingWorks the open-source print-accounting system.
• Improved documentation
• New shell scripts that can start all the print queues on a machine, and that will cancel all print queues on a machine. If anyone has an easier way of doing this, please let me know. These scripts are a bit extravagant for what they are actually doing. Any help would be appreciated.
• Other minor updates
• Still looking for windows developers!