Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Thursday, October 27, 2011 a las 07:00:39PM +0200, Polytropon escribió:

> > Actually you can't blame Bill for this one.  CUPS is an Apple / MacOS X
> > thing.  I must say, it works really smoothly on my MacBook -- I just
> > plug in the USB cable from my printer and hit print -- but I never got
> > it to work properly under FreeBSD.  (Mostly that was because I had the
> > system lpr working just fine on my old FBSD machine connected to the
> > printer using a parallel port.  Newer hardware doesn't even have a
> > parallel port now.)
> 
> If I remember correctly, CUPS started as a Linux project
> and was then incorporated into Mac OS X. Yes, no problems
> there, I've seen it work smoothly as intended, but not
> on FreeBSD so far. :-)

CUPS 1.4.3 is just working fine for me on FreeBSD 9-CURRENT, SunOS and
Linux SLES. You configure the (network) printers through the web
interface, or with lpadmin(8) and you just print from cmd line with
lpr(1), from KDE or Gnome apps. It allows also to print UTF-8 textfiles
(rendered to Postscript with the correct glyphs on the flight) or has a
PDF backend to create PDF printouts the 'normal' way (by printing them
to a PDF printer) to the local file system.

HIH

	matthias
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