On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:14:56PM -0700, David Bishop wrote:
>
> > Would it be better to change from lpr to lnprg or cups?
> Yes :-) Switching to cups is painless, and easy. If this is a home pc,
> apt-get install cupsys cupsys-client kups, configure the server by going
> to localhost:631, and configure kde to use the localhost cups server. I
> use it at both work (with a color laser) and home (with an Epson 777 via
> usb), and it's just great! But I've hated the lpr/lpd/printcap
> "solution" since day one.......
The coolest thing about CUPS is that once you have _one_ CUPS server in
your network and you configure it as master, it will automatically know
and publish _every_ printer in your network (as long as they are public).
Just activate the browsing feature in cups.conf.
No local drivers, no hassle, no installing anything.
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