Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Mark Felder wrote:

> You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would 
> take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs 
> are instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to 
> go home and do the same with my personal laser.

Has anyone here experience with PDQ? It is a printing system that appears 
to address the problems cited in this thread.

   http://pdq.sourceforge.net/

Quoting from the website:

   Most casual unix users regard lp and lpr as
   black holes to which print jobs disappear,
   and may or may not emerge.

I haven't tried it, as we have been able to make CUPS work (barely), but I 
am sympathetic to the sentiments expressed. Other than Windows-specific 
printers, FreeBSD printing problems are home-grown, and not caused by 
vendor misbehavior.

Daniel Feenberg