Re: cups yet again

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:14:25PM +0100, graham wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:02:07PM +0100, graham wrote:
> >>Yet another cups problem (the one program which makes me feel like I do
> >>when running windows - like putting a foot through the computer).
> >
> >So why run cups? Use LPRng and Apsfilter or foomatic print filters.
> >
>
> Cos what I'd understood from other threads was that this would mean
> swimming against the tide, since cups is now the default for both debian
> and gnome, and because I had understood that lprng was no longer
> supported. I'm really hoping to spend the minimum of time possible
> maintaining printers; they don't interest me much ;-)
>

LPRng does look a little long-in-the-tooth. The web page is dated '5 Oct 2004' for the same version as debian ships.

On the other hand, good'ol lpr is up-to-date (still the default, constantly maintaind, on Net- and OpenBSD), sourced from OpenBSD. The bug reports are rather silly, such as "Installing LPR over LPRng doesn't work" (of course not, command file names), "lpr fails to modprobe the paralell port" (of course not, that's your job), etc.

This is, in fact, what I use. Lpr with apsfilter. Simple to setup, well documented. It works.

Doug.

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