[PLUG] CUPS (was Re: Without OS X)

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 12:49 PM -0500 2/11/03, William H. Magill wrote:
> The basic problem is that Apple is supporting a "hoped for standard" 
> from the Open Source community which is not really supported by 
> anybody else. It is a situation which really does hurt just as much 
> as supporting a proprietary version.

	CUPS is pretty much an established standard for printing in 
the Unix/Linux world. It nicely wraps the existing models of printing 
(ie. direct PS, PS->Ghostscript) along with transport models (lpr, 
IPP, PAP, etc.) and provides for wonderful extensions such as 
Gimp-Print (for raster printing).

	There is nothing that comes close...


> >  The Mac OS X gui made me feel very powerless.
>
> If you are talking about the printing system, it is because the CUPS 
> system has no GUI... and it shows.

	Why do you need a GUI to CUPS?  What would you do with it?


> The problem with CUPS is that even though it is a GOOD idea, it is a 
> NEW idea, and not (yet) a mainstream idea.

	Sorry, but you are wrong on this one.  CUPS has been around 
for 10 years now, pretty close to predating Linux ;).  It is 
available for all the major Unix platforms, and has been for years.



>  Consequently there are very few people who understand it fully,

	That's true for ANY printing solution.  Printing is one of 
the most complex aspects of computing since it involves the 
integration of many different parts of both the user and system 
spaces.


Leonard
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