Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:41:38 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 27/10/2011 16:29, Polytropon wrote:
> > In my opinion, CUPS is the "Windows" way of doing things,
> > not the UNIX way. Hate me for having that opinion, but I
> > feel to say it.
> 
> 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. :-)




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Polytropon
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