On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 06:18:35PM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> replaces the old LPD which is technology of the '70s. The advantages of
> CUPS are:
What I never quite understood: What are the advantages for a single home
user system? The adv. you listed below are good and all, but what do I get
out of it? I mean, setting up one printer is not actually hard, is it?
> - Printing options: This is the most interesting point. Under CUPS all
> options of sophisticated printers (trays, resolutions, duplex, color and
> even things as folders or staplers) are available as they were defined
> by the manufacturer of the printer. So no proprietary software is
> necessary any more for making use of all features of a printer.
Would it really be impossible to integrate the options into the current
printing system? Okay, the user might have to set up some printer spools,
but so what? They don't take away any space (well, at least almost) when
not used.
> The part I have done is making an easy-to-use graphical frontend for
> CUPS which one uses for printing instead of "lp" or "lpr". It allows
Hmm, and how do I use that program from a text console? Is it possible to
use CUPS without your interface?
Don't get me wrong here. I'm not at all critizing you or your work at all.
In fact, I think it's quite tremendous what you and the other folks at CUPS
did, but I simply don't get, how that would benefit me, and that's all I
want to know.
Cheers,
Alexander Skwar
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