Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:47:47 -0800 (PST) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> Subject: Re: printing problems lpr/lpd misbehavior ? Message-ID: <200311232047.hANKllHo055816@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpy8u6rgcw.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Andreas Klemm <andreas@freebsd.org> writes: > > q: What makes cups so special that one should try it out ? > > What can it do better than apsfilter which IMHO isn't as bloated > > as cups and has better features... > apsfilter is in my experience a lot more difficult and confusing to > configure, and I don't think I ever figured out how to do things like > switch duplex on / off etc. CUPS has a web-based configuration > interface which is very simple to use. It's also pretty cool that you configure the printers on their various systems and every other system running cups picks them up automatically. I discovered this after I had configured cups on my print system and then installed it on my laptop. All I had to do was a portinstall and start the daemon and it just worked. I _like_ that. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/
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