Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A preliminary attempt to set up CUPS was rather demanding and I'm > wondering if there is much point on a single-user system. Most of my > printing is quite straightforward (plain text and only occasional > images) and it works well with apsfilter or magicfilter, so is there any > reason to spend several hours trying to get CUPS to work? Any > significant advantage with that system?
I experienced the converse. I had a lot of trouble with lpd and lprng (along with magicfilter, etc.) so I tried CUPS at work and was printing (to a network printer) in minutes. It was refreshingly easy. I only have a single printer at home, and again, I was printing to that in minutes too. Now, granted, it's an HP OfficeJet, so I later spent some time with the hpijs driver and hpoj server to improve the quality of the printing (and to work the scanner). The biggest downside was that I also had to learn foomatic to compile a new PPD file (and filed a bug that the generation of the PPD file should be automatic, or at least that foomatic-compiledb should be run to build all of the PPD files when the package is installed so that one sees all of the printers in the menu). But the cupsomatic-ppd package includes a LOT of PPD files which are installed in the right place (/usr/share/cups/model) so some might find that easier to use. While you might have just one printer, you may access it in different ways. The web interface makes it easy for me to create different printer queues for single-sided printing, double-sided printing, toggled printing (double-sided the way the county likes it), color photos, etc. I never did figure out how to enable the double-sided printing at all with magicfilter. I found CUPS to be much easier, and much more powerful, than the alternatives. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]