Martin Costabel wrote: > On mardi, juin 25, 2002, at 11:43 , S�bastien Maret wrote: > >> Well, I do not manage to print with lpr on OSX. It seems that command >> line printing on a network postscript printer is not supported yet. > > > This is wrong. Command line printing using 'lpr' works. You have to > declare the printer in netinfo, however. See 'man 5 netinfo'. > >> It should be supported soon with the CUPS (Am I wrong?) > > > I'll wait and see. Right now, cups on OSX is at least as broken as OSX's > own printing system (and most other Unix printing systems): Beautiful > web interface, but impossible to configure unless you have special > insider information,
The "special insider information" is all in the excellent CUPS documentation. I don't know anything about Mac OS X, but a lot about CUPS (my PowerBook was loaned to me for 4 weeks to test CUPS on Mac OS X). So I compiled CUPS from the sources and it works flawlessly with different printers, PostScript and non-PostScript -- but *only* from the commandline, because I didn't know how to bolt it into the native Print Center (and had no time to find out or ask someone, if it is at all possible). > sometimes it works, but most of the time "it just > doesn't work" (TM), print jobs are dropped or forgotten, and there is no > meaningful error message whatsoever. (Sorry for the rant, but I just > spent one hour to try and print 2 simple postscript files :-() > If you told us exactly, what you did to configure your printer, what sort of printer it is and how you wanted to print, what the error messages were etc., you might be lucky and get some help. Otherwise, try read at http://www.cups.org/cups-help.html for some more hints. Cheers, Kurt ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
