On Tuesday 10 September 2002 07:08 pm, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > Exactly! > > We have chosen not to use CUPS because it's far different from standard > unix printing systems. We have a team of SA's and it's nice to not have > too have a "CUPS guy" when stuff doesn't work. lpd and LPRng may not > have an integrated webserver and magic integration with some very cool > but mostly unused internet printing standard. But LPRng is a very > nightweight printing system, it's secure, not undergoing tons of changes > like CUPS is, and it just plain works.
While I do not agree that LPRng should be removed, I would say that CUPS is about ten times better for the desktop user. No screwing around with text files (is there anything more arcane than /etc/printcap?) and no frustrations with trying to figure out where the heck your print job is getting lost, thanks to the webserver. The IPP stuff is quite useful if you have Windows XP clients, because it's plug and play and you don't have to mess with samba. You do have to edit a text file (etc/cups/mime.types), because the raw print file option is commented out by default, and that's what Windows uses. Any chance this could be integrated into the GUI? -- -- Igor
