Re: Why use COPS?

[Geordie Birch <geordie@tao.ca>]

said Anthony Campbell (on 2003-03-18),

> A preliminary attempt to set up CUPS was rather demanding and I'm
> wondering if there is much point on a single-user system. Most of my
> printing is quite straightforward (plain text and only occasional
> images) and it works well with apsfilter or magicfilter, so is there any
> reason to spend several hours trying to get CUPS to work? Any
> significant advantage with that system?

I recently set up CUPS on a single user system.

After I correctly set up the parallel port, CUPS worked perfectly right
out of the box - no tweaking necessary.

Geordie.