Re: yay! I can print!
* John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au> [2004 Jul 25 06:34 -0500]:
> I quite like cups. It can automagically find other cups printers. Add a
> new printer to "that box over there" and everyone knows about it. Works
> with Windows 2k too (but I don't know the details).
>
> I told a mate about it. He, like me, is a bit of a fiddler. He installed
> it, fell in love with it.
>
> I'd previously fought with both lpd and lprng on RHL. CUPS is better.
I concur. I never have had satisfactory print quality on my agin
Lexmark 4039-10R with lpr/lprng with magicfilter/apsfilter. I started
playing with CUPS a month or so back and once I installed libgimpprint
and used their ljet3 driver in CUPS I got the best output from that
printer I have seen yet.
I really like the Web style admin interface even if it is a bit quirky
the first time through (like all interfaces it seems). Not having to
edit some obxcure text file suits me fine. I'm happily using a program
that was too complicated for even ESR to setup. ;-)
- Nate >>
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