> This is not exactly what Nadav has described : its a complete standalone > X Server that is used to render pages to be printed instead of normal > windows. Except from not working it suffers from all the draw backs of > the other standalone printing servers (cups, lpd, etc) compared to the > suggested alternative.
I did have my share of pain with printing servers.. If you read the Release notes from Redhat 9, LPRng is going bye bye soon as far as Redhat concerned (I assume that Mandrake will follow, and SuSE will leave it in - hey, SuSE 8.2 Pro now comes on 2 DVD's -- I wonder if the next version will not include a copy of the whole sourceforge projects!) With today's printers LPRng and the other LP's (pick your favorites) are hardly suited to the task, and are very problematic when it comes to: * share printer between several machines with different OS's (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc) * Support for the newer printers - be it Deskjet based, Laser printers, plotters * Support for printer hardware communications - be it USB, Blue-tooth.. * Support for newer protocols: IPP (Internet printing protocol), Rendezvous, etc.. With Xprint and the LPx printing servers today you'll have a hard time (if at all) to make those features useful and working... Now lets look at CUPS: * it supports all those protocols mentioned above * The easiest printing configuration available today (be it through the internal web service, or KDE printing configurations which makes printing configurations a child play) * PPD support - just take the Windows CD that you got from your printer box, search for the PPD file, feed it to the KDE printer configuration - and you're printer is ready to print - that simple! * Full support for platforms - be it Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX, Alpha, etc.. FYI.. Hetz ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
