cupsd

Server daemon for the CUPS print server. More information: https://www.cups.org/doc/man-cupsd.html.

• Start cupsd in the background, aka. as a daemon:

cupsd

• Start cupsd on the [f]oreground:

cupsd -f

• [l]aunch cupsd on-demand (commonly used by launchd or systemd):

cupsd -l

• Start cupsd using the specified [c]upsd.conf configuration file:

cupsd -c {{path/to/cupsd.conf}}

• Start cupsd using the specified cups-file[s].conf configuration file:

cupsd -s {{path/to/cups-files.conf}}

• [t]est the [c]upsd.conf configuration file for errors:

cupsd -t -c {{path/to/cupsd.conf}}

• [t]est the cups-file[s].conf configuration file for errors:

cupsd -t -s {{path/to/cups-files.conf}}

• Display all available options:

cupsd -h