Martin Costabel writes:
> 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'
As far as I could tell, you had to put printer entries in *both*
the netinfo database *and* /etc/printcap. That's what worked for
me..
> > 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,
> 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 :-()
I hear you Martin. When using CUPS on Linux I ran across all
sorts of esoteric and finicky problems. Most specifically, I had
to end up hand-editing the PPD files for our print devices so
that the local CUPS config utils would know about all the options
available to them (i.e. duplexing).
Not pretty.
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