[gentoo-user] {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-02 Thread Grant
I'm trying to print from my remote server to my local printer. It's working great via CUPS, but I've been warned that this is not a good idea and that I should be using Net::Printer instead. Net::Printer docs say: Net::Printer, by itself, does not speak to printers running the CUPS protocol. In

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 02 February 2008, Grant wrote: I thought CUPS was *the* way to print on Linux.  Is there another solution that would work better with Net::Printer? CUPS is the latest in a long string of different print systems, all trying to solve this infernally difficult problem called putting

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-02 Thread Grant
I thought CUPS was *the* way to print on Linux. Is there another solution that would work better with Net::Printer? CUPS is the latest in a long string of different print systems, all trying to solve this infernally difficult problem called putting dots on the right place on a bit of

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 02 February 2008, Grant wrote: I thought CUPS was *the* way to print on Linux. Is there another solution that would work better with Net::Printer? CUPS is the latest in a long string of different print systems, all trying to solve this infernally difficult problem called

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-02 Thread Grant
I thought CUPS was *the* way to print on Linux. Is there another solution that would work better with Net::Printer? CUPS is the latest in a long string of different print systems, all trying to solve this infernally difficult problem called putting dots on the right place on a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 02 February 2008, Grant wrote: You're right, access to the printer can be given only to certain hosts.  So simply using 'lpr file.pdf' on the remote machine doesn't strike you as a bad idea? Lets look at this from the perspective of what is really going on. You have a process on