print question: cups and lpr

[Bob Johnson]

On 3/7/06, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
>         On my test system  I'm defaulting to "cups"; printing on any
>         flavor of *nix has always been painful ... which is why I
>         stick with plain ol' lpr::: it Just-Works{tm}.  So on my
>         printserver and everywhere else I have lpr/lpd going.
>
>         Under Gnome on my test platform I've tried to get things to
>         print via my printsrver.  I see that Gnome thinks things are
>         printing.  Not.  Do any of you print wizards know what I'm
>         missing?

KDE?

OK, I'll get serious. When I see this it's because I forgot to
actually start lpd after I set up the printer interface (in my case,
apsfilter).  They are in the print queue just waiting for a printer to
come up, so your favorite desktop environment thinks everything
worked.

>
> 	PS:  5 gold stars for anybody who can 'splain why cups exists.

To support IPP.  If you don't need IPP support (e.g. Windows and BSD
systems sharing printers), you don't really need CUPS.  I use
apsfilter except when I actually need the features of CUPS.

- Bob