Hello,
I'm now and than in the need of discussing CUPS / Postscript related
printing questions. In the past there was www.cups.org with a CUPS
related bug tracking system and user forums around CUPS. It seems that
the server crashed some time ago and it's unknown when (and how) it will
come back
Hello to the list,
I made a fresh install of FreeBSD 9.1 on a 74bit system and I am trying to
install everything I need using ports and not packages. However, when I try
to install cups (version 1.5.4), even in the default configuration, I
receive the following build errors:
echo Linking
Hi all,
How can i disable cups, docbook and other ports from compiling after
port update?
I have no printer and no use of cups or docbook.
*Sorry for my english*
Greetings
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:56:59 +0200, lokada...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi all,
How can i disable cups, docbook and other ports from compiling after
port update?
I have no printer and no use of cups or docbook.
If you don't mind the _time_ required for building those ports
(and taking into mind
Hi all,
I'm struggling with a speed issue when trying to print stuff from
firefox (10.0.2,1). I've set up cups (meta package 1.5.2) on my box
which uses a Lexmark E360dn printer via ethernet. The printer has a
postscript emulation which is set as the default (as opposed to
PCL). I've used
Leslie Jensen writes:
Hi Markus.
If you do a search in the archives you'll see that some of us have
printing problems with Firefox. Some even suspect that printing in Firefox
is broken.
I myself has not been able to solve my specific printing problems which
include both Firefox
Hi all,
I'm struggling with a speed issue when trying to print stuff from
firefox (10.0.2,1). I've set up cups (meta package 1.5.2) on my box
which uses a Lexmark E360dn printer via ethernet. The printer has a
postscript emulation which is set as the default (as opposed to
PCL). I've used a PPD
won't need CUPS anytime soon. :-)
No, please don't blame CUPS, it is earnestly trying to cope with
everything thrown at him (stupid printers, gnome DBus autoconfig, Apple
Mac OSX and so on), and it is doing a fairly good job at it.
I know that printing currently isn't as easy as I (with
my
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:24:32 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
Using a Linksys Wireless-G WPS54GU2 print server (WLAN, LAN,
USB, parallel) - following Jerry's suggestion - I'll try tp
get rid of the USB cable at the next step.
I spoke to an associate yesterday who claims he used a USB to Ethernet
and orientation, color
or BW etc.
They did, then they got bought by Apple...
I should make myself more familiar with the command line
tool. Still I hope I won't need CUPS anytime soon. :-)
No, please don't blame CUPS, it is earnestly trying to cope with
everything thrown at him (stupid
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:42:08 +0100, Jerome Herman wrote:
You did nothing wrong, on the contrary. You now have a prefectly working
printer. You just need to tell cups it exists.
Since
# foo2qpdl-wrapper -p 2 -c cupstest.ps cupstest.xqx
# cat cupstest.xqx /dev/ulpt0
works
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
I don't know that I can add anything to the cups discussion here, but I
understand you'd rather use lpr anyway. You are aware that the printer
will only speak splix the samsung universal driver language? So any
config would have to be based
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:03:58 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
I _never_ would buy a USB printer, and I would also never
buy something that doesn't talk PS (or at least PCL).
Both PS and to a lesser extent PCL are becoming passé. You might
want to seriously consider PDF. The better Brother
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
I don't know that I can add anything to the cups discussion here, but I
understand you'd rather use lpr anyway. You are aware that the printer
will only speak splix the samsung universal driver language
On 26/02/2012 18:46, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:42:08 +0100, Jerome Herman wrote:
You did nothing wrong, on the contrary. You now have a prefectly working
printer. You just need to tell cups it exists.
Since
# foo2qpdl-wrapper -p 2 -c cupstest.ps cupstest.xqx
I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
web-based configuration, none of the methods that are
supposed to be used for installing a printer works.
The Add Printer button leads to this:
Add Printer
---
Local
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
web-based configuration, none of the methods that are
supposed to be used for installing a printer works.
The Add
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:14:33 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
web-based configuration, none of the methods that are
supposed to be used for installing a printer works.
USB sucks on FreeBSD
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:26:29 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote:
Hope this can help:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=27666
There are many things that could be interfering?
Done as explained in the thread. Even
# cp /usr/local/share/examples/cups/ulpt-cupsd.conf /usr/local
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:55:36 -0500, Jerry wrote:
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:14:33 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
web-based configuration, none of the methods that are
supposed
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
web-based configuration, none of the methods that are
supposed to be used for installing a printer works.
(... snip
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:07:36 +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
web-based configuration, none of the methods
On 02/26/12 08:14, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:07:36 +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytroponfree...@edvax.de wrote:
I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
web-based configuration
On 25/02/2012 22:14, Polytropon wrote:
I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
web-based configuration, none of the methods that are
supposed to be used for installing a printer works.
The Add Printer button leads
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:23:19 +0100
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:46:52 +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote:
Is there any documentation available on how to retrieve old ports
from the cvs-attic? I just don't know how, so that I could test my
assumption that CUPS 1.4
I am trying to get CUPS 1.5.2 from ports working with my printer and I
encounter a problem exactly like a bug described in
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4008, albeit with a Kyocera 1030-D instead of
a kyocera 2000. In essence, CUPS 1.5.+ is sending corrupted data to some
printers and the remedies
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:46:52 +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote:
Is there any documentation available on how to retrieve old ports from
the cvs-attic? I just don't know how, so that I could test my assumption
that CUPS 1.4.x should be working for my setup.
There's a port to do so: portdowngrade
for printing.
Even though especially office applications (such as Abiword
or LibreOffice) have a built-in PDF file generator, the printing
output that is sent to the printing subsystem (lpr, CUPS, whatever)
is in PS format and gets converted to what the printer needs
by the proper printer filter
that _applications_ use as output format for printing.
Even though especially office applications (such as Abiword
or LibreOffice) have a built-in PDF file generator, the printing
output that is sent to the printing subsystem (lpr, CUPS, whatever)
is in PS format and gets converted to what the printer
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:33:33 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
PDF is not exactly PS, but it does use a subset of the instructions.
That's correct, but both formats share essential parts of
functionality. Conversion between them is relatively easy.
The other thing you will notice is that its mostly on
still seems to be the
format that _applications_ use as output format for printing.
Even though especially office applications (such as Abiword
or LibreOffice) have a built-in PDF file generator, the printing
output that is sent to the printing subsystem (lpr, CUPS, whatever)
is in PS format
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:14:47 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
Think about that:
% netcat 192.168.123.456 /tmp/printing.pdf
I can do either:
nc 192.168.1.100 9100 /tmp/print.pdf
or nc 192.168.1.100 9100 /tmp/print.ps
right now without any problems.
If you looked at the
that: act as a print server (sometimes a bit like
CUPS with a web interface) and you can store, hold, print jobs. Graphics
organisations still use them, but since processors are so fast these
days they don't always bother with some printers.
With these functions, the operator could receive a print job
On 02/18/12 00:22, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:14:47 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
Think about that:
% netcat 192.168.123.456 /tmp/printing.pdf
I can do either:
nc 192.168.1.100 9100 /tmp/print.pdf
or nc 192.168.1.100 9100 /tmp/print.ps
right now without
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:29 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:59 +0100, Ouyang Xueyu wrote:
Hello,
I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my
Brother MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP
address, is configured in CUPS
On 02/12/12 23:33, Jerry wrote:
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:29 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:59 +0100, Ouyang Xueyu wrote:
Hello,
I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my
Brother MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP
address
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:25:06 +1000
Da Rock articulated:
The biggest problem comes with using many interpreters of a single
language. Thankfully pcl works on the majority of printers (network),
and is practically a standard in the enterprise world, so you're
still not marooned with a paper
, and the origin of cups (at least the
biggest backer).
I don't know the value of creating a wrapper for Windows drivers given
they use PCL mostly anyway. Main advantage I'd suppose is in GDI drivers...
As a printer specialist I stay well away from printers that don't
support a standard anyway - I'll
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:59 +0100, Ouyang Xueyu wrote:
Hello,
I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother
MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address, is
configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank pages when I'm trying
to print
We use a bunch of HP and Xerox printers across our network, all capable
of being accessed via network over IPP protocoall (so they claim).
Printing worked for me flawless on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE, 9.0-CURRENT, now
9.0-STABLE on all boxes in question. Since updating cups to revision
1.5.0
updating cups to revision
1.5.0 (this is the most recent port version and I recently
updated/recompiled the port and dependencies for all parts of CUPS
either with CLANG and GCC 4.2.1), I get massive problems accessing
printers on the network.
Most HP printers accept a print job, but after accepting
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote:
I was wondering if this patch, whatever the Ubuntu fellows patched,
couldn't be introduced to FreeBSD's CUPS port.
Well, sorry about my impatience, but I'm floating like a dead man in the
water, since I have to prepare printouts for a conference and printing
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:59 +0100
Ouyang Xueyu articulated:
Hello,
I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother
MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address,
is configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank pages when I'm
trying to print
On 02/06/12 22:21, Jerry wrote:
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:59 +0100
Ouyang Xueyu articulated:
Hello,
I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother
MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address,
is configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank
Hello,
I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother
MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address, is
configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank pages when I'm trying
to print.
Does anybody know a solution for this behaviour?
X
On 02/06/12 06:21, Ouyang Xueyu wrote:
Hello,
I have Freebsd 8.2 and CUPS installed and try to print on my Brother
MFC 7840W printer. The printer is accessible by a static IP address,
is configured in CUPS but everytime I only get blank pages when I'm
trying to print.
Does anybody know
I have a printer that doesn't support IPP. The leasing agency wants to charge
me $1400 to install the Postcript driver on it but I'm looking at another
solution, if possible: CUPS.
I have a MacBook and we have a number of iOS devices around the office here
that people would love to be able
-Original Message-
From: Ryan Coleman [mailto:edi...@d3photography.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:24 AM
To: Patrick Mahan
Cc: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: Re: CUPS and IPP/JD/LPD
Definitely Postscript.
With CUPS, I'm don't remember off the top of my head, but I believe
Em Qui, 2011-12-08 às 10:40 -0600, Ryan Coleman escreveu:
I have a printer that doesn't support IPP. The leasing agency wants to charge
me $1400 to install the Postcript driver on it but I'm looking at another
solution, if possible: CUPS.
I have a MacBook and we have a number of iOS
I decided to install FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2. I like to have KDE4 as I have now and
my question is: Do I need to have in the make.conf still
QT4_OPTIONS=CUPS
Thank you.
Mitja
http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa
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Hey everyone,
I hope this is FreeBSD-specific enough for this list... Ever since
moving to FreeBSD, I haven't been able to use color on my color
laserjet. I've tried selecting just about every color laserjet model
from the web interface to CUPS that I can think of, and the only color
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 386, Issue 9, Message: 5
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:28:24 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi articulated:
Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and
denying them the
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:28:24AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
You cannot even get a decent N - protocol wireless device, or even
a not so decent one for that matter, to work on FreeBSD while the
rest of the world has had working solutions for 5 years. What the
hell are they waiting for -- the second
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:25:11 +
Frank Shute articulated:
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:28:24AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
You cannot even get a decent N - protocol wireless device, or even
a not so decent one for that matter, to work on FreeBSD while the
rest of the world has had working
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote:
The biggest loser in this is FreeBSD itself. Virtually any new PC or
laptop, with the exception of the bargain basement brands, and even
some of them are exempt, now come with N protocol wireless devices.
Instead of devoting so
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:59:58 +0100
C. P. Ghost articulated:
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote:
The biggest loser in this is FreeBSD itself. Virtually any new PC or
laptop, with the exception of the bargain basement brands, and even
some of them are exempt,
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:48:08 -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:59:58 +0100
C. P. Ghost articulated:
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote:
The biggest loser in this is FreeBSD itself. Virtually any new PC or
laptop, with the exception of the bargain
Then I have to portupgrade hplip and dependencies (portupgrade
-r ...) or the portmaster equivalent.
Welcome to the wonderful world of printing on FreeBSD. By the way, is
the time you are investing in this venture considered billable hours or
just self-flagellation?
--
Jerry ???
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi articulated:
Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and
denying them the 'freedom of choice' to make their own decisions on
the matter -- e.g. anyone offering such products should be to some
degree held legally
While political and economic issues are important, most of them are not
directly relevant to the freebsd-questions mailing list, and reduce the
usefulness of the list in helping people get answers to questions about
FreeBSD.
Please continue such subjects somewhere else, like private email or
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Oct 29 06:29:33 2011
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:28:24 -0400
From: Jerry je...@seibercom.net
To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1110270834540.94...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
...
The only thing that worries me about my rather ad-hoc way of setting up
a personal printer (as describe above) is that I sort of wonder what
from Mark Felder f...@feld.me:
You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would
take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are
instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to go
home and do the same with my
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:08:07 + (GMT)
Thomas Mueller articulated:
from Mark Felder f...@feld.me:
You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it
would take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my
print jobs are instantaneous here at work instead
_without_ CUPS
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:11:32 +0200
Polytropon articulated:
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:39:05 -0400, Jerry wrote:
Printing under MS Windows is a breeze.
The *nix community has never
gotten printing up to that lever.
It _had_, past tense. :-)
While
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Mark Felder wrote:
You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would
take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs
are instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to
go home and do the same with my
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Mark Felder wrote:
You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would
take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are
instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:53:44 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
A better example would be a web browser or word processor. The program
stops responding to further input until the printer has received the
entire print job. This bothered people enough that they came up with
lpd/lpr, which is
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:36:20 -0400, Jerry wrote:
Welcome to the wonderful world of printing on FreeBSD. By the way, is
the time you are investing in this venture considered billable hours or
just self-flagellation?
Maybe you can also ask the other way round:
BEFORE I buy a product, I ask:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:12:54 +0200
Polytropon articulated:
So let me make this more clear: IF the hardware manufacturer
wants to allow developers to write drivers for their hardware
for free, THEN everything they'd have to do is to publish the
control codes for the sheet feeder and the ink
On Oct 28, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Jerry wrote:
Check out MOVED in the ports. There are numerous applications that
are just abandoned or discontinued. If something breaks I want someone
to contact. I realize that is not the Open Source way however. The
thought of someone actually being responsible
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:14:26 -0700
Chuck Swiger articulated:
On Oct 28, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Jerry wrote:
Check out MOVED in the ports. There are numerous applications that
are just abandoned or discontinued. If something breaks I want
someone to contact. I realize that is not the Open Source
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:12:54 +0200
Polytropon articulated:
So let me make this more clear: IF the hardware manufacturer
wants to allow developers to write drivers for their hardware
for free, THEN everything they'd have to do is to publish
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry je...@seibercom.net pontificated:
I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop. My
drugs come form known pharmaceutical corporations and not the local
pusher. I like my device specific codes to come from those best able to
supply
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi articulated:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry je...@seibercom.net
pontificated:
I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop.
My drugs come form known pharmaceutical corporations and not the
local
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:17:46 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi articulated:
P.S. If _anybody_ wants to accuse me of 'name-calling', note well
that Jerry started it, and without any provocation.
Mommy.mommy, come quick. The boy next door is picking on me.
--
Jerry ✌
jerry+f...@seibercom.net
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400, Jerry wrote:
Remember the adage: You get what you pay for.
That's often true - especially in the home consumer
market you mostly get crap, this is what you pay for.
But in some cases, you can't control _what_ you get
just per payment, means: Just because it's
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net supersciliously
ponftificated:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi articulated:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry je...@seibercom.net
pontificated:
I buy my cars from known corporations and
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400
Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi articulated:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry je...@seibercom.net
pontificated:
I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop.
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote:
Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and
denying them the 'freedom of choice' to make their own decisions on the
matter -- e.g. anyone offering such products should be to some degree
held legally
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
A better example would be a web browser or word processor. The
program stops responding to further input until the printer has
received the entire print job. This bothered people enough that
they came up with lpd/lpr ...
Back when lpr/lpd were first
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:44:59 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote:
Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and
denying them the 'freedom of choice' to make their own decisions on the
matter --
.
I'm impatient by nature, and I don't like CUPS. (I would say that I hate
it, but I don't actually feel that strongly.)
I have two personal workstations. When I say personal I mean it. I'm
the only one who ever touches them.
I think I have over 50 ports depending on CUPS in one way
This isn't really a question. It's more of a semi-rant, combined with some
information that I wanted to put on the record (so that it can be googled)
because it may benefit some folks, other than just me.
I'm impatient by nature, and I don't like CUPS. (I would say that I hate
it, but I don't
From: Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:28 AM
Subject: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS
This isn't really a question. It's more of a semi-rant, combined with some
information
discussing CUPS.
There's a separate article about CUPS on the Books and Articles Online
page:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cups/index.html
I just wanted to share what I did.
In a nutshell, I moved/renamed /usr/bin/lpr to /usr/bin/lpr- and replaced
it with this trivial script
I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad
lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long
enough that I don't want to wait.
More importantly, CUPS, for me at least, seems to be quite slow.
There's a lng pause after I queue something
, and I don't like CUPS. (I would say that I hate
it, but I don't actually feel that strongly.)
Let's shake hands, and allow me to add that I'm lazy. :-)
I have two personal workstations. When I say personal I mean it. I'm
the only one who ever touches them.
One of them I have been
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
BUT: CUPS seems to be hardcoded into many applications
today. They stopped working with the non-CUPS default
system tools. An example is Opera. Another one is Gimp
which works with system lp* tools, but has hardcoded
queries
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:17:55 +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
BUT: CUPS seems to be hardcoded into many applications
today. They stopped working with the non-CUPS default
system tools. An example is Opera. Another one is Gimp
On 27/10/2011 16:29, Polytropon wrote:
In my opinion, CUPS is the Windows way of doing things,
not the UNIX way. Hate me for having that opinion, but I
feel to say it.
Actually you can't blame Bill for this one. CUPS is an Apple / MacOS X
thing. I must say, it works really smoothly on my
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:41:38 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 27/10/2011 16:29, Polytropon wrote:
In my opinion, CUPS is the Windows way of doing things,
not the UNIX way. Hate me for having that opinion, but I
feel to say it.
Actually you can't blame Bill for this one. CUPS is an Apple
El día Thursday, October 27, 2011 a las 07:00:39PM +0200, Polytropon escribió:
Actually you can't blame Bill for this one. CUPS is an Apple / MacOS X
thing. I must say, it works really smoothly on my MacBook -- I just
plug in the USB cable from my printer and hit print -- but I never got
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:41:38 +0100
Matthew Seaman articulated:
On 27/10/2011 16:29, Polytropon wrote:
In my opinion, CUPS is the Windows way of doing things,
not the UNIX way. Hate me for having that opinion, but I
feel to say it.
Actually you can't blame Bill for this one. CUPS
Quoth Ronald F. Guilmette on Thursday, 27 October 2011:
#!/bin/sh
printer='/dev/ulpt0'
if [ $# = 0 ]; then
cat | /usr/local/libexec/psif $printer
else
for arg in $* ; do
cat $arg |
On Oct 27, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Jerry wrote:
Printing under MS Windows is a breeze. The *nix community has never
gotten printing up to that lever.
Of course Unix has had functional printing; the issue is mostly dumb printers
which can't accept PostScript or at least PCL, and need an OS-specific
that the cost
of writing drivers for a widely fragmented community and then having to
support said drivers would just not be financially feasible.
Interesting. I always thought CUPS (which is common across
the many Linusi, as well as standard in Mac OS X) would have
a PPD plugin
In message 20111027143609.60335.qm...@joyce.lan, you wrote:
I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad
lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long
enough that I don't want to wait.
I don't quite understand the issue you are raising john.
Even
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1110270834540.94...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
...
The only thing that worries me about my rather ad-hoc way of setting up
a personal printer (as describe above) is that I sort of wonder what
will happen if I ever try to print something
on a common, uniform hierarchy for and method of
implementing printer drivers. I couldn't care less if they used CUPS.
LPR or whatever just as long as they get a unified method in place.
If such a system were in place, there would be no problem in getting
developers to write the necessary drivers
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