About the Author:

Kurt Pfeifle works in Stuttgart as a System Specialist for Danka Deutschland GmbH, one of the largest manufacturer-independent providers for sales and service of system solutions in the digital printing market, integrating hardware as well as software components, covering heterogeneous network environments. He may be contacted via kpfeifle.at.danka.de.


Links:

http://www.danka.de/printpro/faq.html
CUPS-FAQ by Kurt Pfeifle, more than 150 Questions (and presently a bit less Answers ;-)
http://www.pwg.org/ipp/
First hand infos about Internet Printing Protocol
http://www.cups.org/software.html
CUPS download
http://www.cups.org/documentation.html
First hand infos about CUPS
http://www.easysw.com/software.html
ESP PrintPro download
http://www.easysw.com/documentation.html
First hand infos about ESP PrintPro
http://www.linuxprinting.org/
Grant Taylor and Till Kamppeter: Linux Printing HOWTO, Linux Printing Database, PPD-O-Matic and PDQ-O-Matic and much more
http://www.pwg.org/ipp/IPP-Products.html
List of IPP-aware products at the Printer Working Group website
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/
One of the many mirrors where you can access Samba documentation

Annotation: this paper is based on a chapter Kurt wrote for the "Samba-HOWTO-Collection", shipped as part of the current Samba 2.2.x sources. The Samba-HOWTO-Collection is also online available at all mirrors of the Samba Project, f.e. at http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html.