X11: CUPS
(last edit: 2008-01-23)
                   FreeBSD and CUPS

Here is a really short howto on using CUPS with FreeBSD

- Make sure you install gnome with cups support, use --with-cups with make in the port

- Set rc.conf to start cupsd

- Cups installs it's tools in /usr/local/bin while the base system uses /usr/bin. 
You can fix this while installing cups with --CUP_OVERWRITE_BASE or removing 'lp', 'lpr',
'lpq' and 'lprm' in /usr/bin and symlinking the tools from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin

# ls -al /usr/bin/lp*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  17 Jan 23 09:42 /usr/bin/lp -> /usr/local/bin/lp
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  18 Jan 23 09:42 /usr/bin/lpq -> /usr/local/bin/lpq
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  18 Jan 23 09:42 /usr/bin/lpr -> /usr/local/bin/lpr
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  19 Jan 23 09:42 /usr/bin/lprm -> /usr/local/bin/lprm
#

- Install / configure your printer(s) by going to http://127.0.0.1:631 . 
You need the PPD for your printer(s) to do this and/or CUPS knows a few printers by itself.

Checks
from the CUPS manual:

Use the lpstat(1) command to see a list of available printers:

      lpstat -p -d ENTER

The -p option specifies that you want to see a list of printers, and the -d option 
reports the current default printer or class.

Use the -d option with the lp command to print to a specific printer:

      lp -d printer filename ENTER

or the -P option with the lpr command:

      lpr -P printer filename ENTER