Re: Why CUPS?

On Friday 11 December 2009 19:42:23 Teemu Likonen wrote:
On 2009-12-09 14:52 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote:
This does not only apply to client applications, but also to
computers configured as CUPS clients (debian's default): You only
set-up and configure a printer on one server for a whole network.
With a default debian installation, the clients on the network will
discover the printer automatically and 'just work'. I have never used
lprng so I don't know, if it has a similar feature.

Actually, it's the other way around: with CUPS, every client has to be
configured for that particular printer. To make up for it, CUPS has
support to make this confuiguration automatic, but if your client
doesn't have the appropriate driver, you're screwed.

Not with my CUPS and Lenny boxes. I have CUPS and a CUPS-published
printer configured on my main desktop machine. Then I have a laptop with
just "aptitude install cups" default settings. On my home network the
printer is available and fully functional for my laptop without any
configuration or drivers needed in the laptop. "aptitude install cups"
is everything that is needed.

With LPRng, the configuration is only done once and for all on one
machine. That's the only one that needs to have the appropriate
driver.

Just like my CUPS.

I don't know about LPRng at all, maybe it's better than CUPS, but your
comments on CUPS definitely don't match my experience.

Nor mine.

I have my printers set-up on all my computers, and do not normally run them
from the network. But once when I was in a hurry, and the printer set-up on
one of my boxes was unusable because the drivers etc. had been messed up (I
can't remember how) I was able to print over the network from one of the
other computers, in spite of the messed up driver on the computer I was
working on.

Lisi


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