Re: CUPS should be the default print service in Debian/Sarge
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:44:17AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> The last time I tried to use CUPS, I found it to be so user friendly
> that I couldn't get it to do anything useful. Very pretty, less
> functional; and the documentation was entirely inadequate.
>
> On the other hand, while lprng was anything but user-friendly, it was
> simple and well-documented. Much more important to have something
> that works before you go making it user-friendly!
Care to give more details? Which printer? How was it connected? How
did you try to setup CUPS?
Even if I don't think the CUPS documentation is superb, for the setups
I have had to deal with (anything but trivial) it was adequate, and the
only thing I really that to read about what the IPP name service
conventions.
Marcelo
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