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On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Wojciech Puchar <
> wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>
>> at all cost.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But for this, CUPS is your best choice.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry i DO WANT SIMPLE THINGS. not overcomplex windows style craps. thanks
>>
>
> Prining is NOT simple no matter what you might think. And what CUPS (Common
> UniX Print  System) has to do with windows, I can't imagine. (It does share
> quite a bit with MacOS and Apple does own a lot of the code.)
>
> Unless you want to print to a very dumb printer, CUPS is almost certainly
> the simplest choice...vastly simpler than plain old lpd(8) and old,
> unmanageable printcaps(5) files. But it's your life and your system.

Huh.  My experience has been the opposite.  CUPS is a huge blob of 
complexity hiding behind a user interface that appears simple.  lpd(8) 
can be annoying, but works fine for this kind of use.