Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:22:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> To: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1110280716120.13907@nber6> In-Reply-To: <op.v306g2om34t2sn@tech304> References: <15996.1319704110@tristatelogic.com> <op.v306g2om34t2sn@tech304>
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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 personal laser. Has anyone here experience with PDQ? It is a printing system that appears to address the problems cited in this thread. http://pdq.sourceforge.net/ Quoting from the website: Most casual unix users regard lp and lpr as black holes to which print jobs disappear, and may or may not emerge. I haven't tried it, as we have been able to make CUPS work (barely), but I am sympathetic to the sentiments expressed. Other than Windows-specific printers, FreeBSD printing problems are home-grown, and not caused by vendor misbehavior. Daniel Feenberg
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