>Apple licensed, then purchased CUPS for a reason. Printing was a >mess in 10.0 and 10.1, but with the addition of CUPS in 10.2, OS X >users became able to use every printer that Unix/Linux users could.
This brings back bad memories. If the anyone thinks M$ is having a bad time with Vista, that's nothing compared to the first 3 versions of OS X. They were unusable. For a while it was looking to me that Apple would not survive. Back then I was studying up on CUPS because it looked like the only way out of the printing mess, but then the need to understand CUPS vanished. The PostScript printers I use mostly install cleanly using the OS's built-in PostScript support. The non-PostScript printers I have used come with their own drivers, that seem to work fine. The Printer Setup Utility that CUPS used was eliminated in Leopard (X.5) and the CUPS port is no longer active. I could be wrong, but I don't think I'm using CUPS. I think CUPS remains as an option in case you have a printer that is not otherwise supported. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
