On Friday 27 March 2009 12:02:53 pm Uwe Grauer wrote: > johnf wrote: > > Under Linux (also available on the MAC) there is pycups.py. Which uses > > the CUPS lib to retrieve information on the printer queue. But is not > > part of the standard available packages. To be honest I don't even know > > if MAC's use CUPS to print. > > > > > >From cups.org: > > CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by > Apple Inc. for Mac OS® X and other UNIX®-like operating systems. > > :-) > > Uwe
Didn't know that. But to be honest I didn't believe what you said either. Who ever heard of Apple giving anything away. But Wikipedia reports Michael Sweet, who owns Easy Software Products, started developing CUPS in 1997. The first public betas appeared in 1999.[1] The original design of CUPS used the LPD protocol, but due to limitations in LPD and vendor incompatibilities the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) was chosen instead. CUPS was quickly adopted as the default printing system for several Linux distributions, including Red Hat Linux.[citation needed] In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac OS X 10.2.[2] In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer Michael Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code.[3] So it makes sense that Apple would take credit. -- John Fabiani _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-dev This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
