Re: Why CUPS?

[Dirk Neumann <neum_d@yahoo.de>]

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:14:22 -0500
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> 
> IIUC the main feature of CUPS is that it lets client applications get
> a description of the printer's features, so they can give you a nice GUI
> widget to let you choose simplex/duplex, draft/quality, photo-paper,
> color/b&w, ...

Unfortunatly, some of these settings (namely: paper size) are
consequelty ignored by CUPS.

> 
> It's really sad that we can't have both.

But it would be fine if we could have one.

Dirk.