Re: [TCLUG:19589] Is CUPS the real deal?

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

I've used cups, from what i've seen, it's kinda broken, beta, and has very
little printer support.  and printer support beond HP deskjet/laserjet is
commercial binaries only. (right now)  it's a case of a company "we'll
write the print system, and make it free, but you'll have to shell out to
actualy get your printer to work"
I like LPRng the most out of all the print spoolers out there, and the
debian guys have done a good job of porting redhat printtool and filters
to debian.. and it works perfectly with LPRng AND lpr.  <rumor> redhat
will be using lprng in the future </rumor>  

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> I despise dealing with print servers. I hate lpd with the white-hot
> intensity of a thousand suns. (Feel free to quote me :-)
> 
> Oh how I long for the day that maintaining printers, print queues, and print
> clients happy won't give me headaches.
> 
> I saw the note about IPP and CUPS on Slashdot and got to wondering if this
> stuff was any good. Has anyone used it? Any opinions?
> 
> -Tim
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