On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:53:24 -0400 Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are there any workable alternatives to CUPS? Any alternatives that folks actually RECOMMEND using? It would be great to run a somewhat leaner print system...
lpd or lprng are still the best solutions. They are modular, i.e., you can have the functionality you wish without carrying around things you don't need, they have decent documentation, not a repetitive prayer like CUPS, and above all, they are transparent, i.e., they allow you to trace down any strange situation to the very point where things are breaking. This particular point can be extremely annoying if you first have to set up a webserver to do CUPS configuration, as CUPS is so authoritative to decide what you may know and see and what not. Once I had a breve conversation with one of the gimpprint developers who loves CUPS, but finally admited that there is nothing in CUPS you can't also do with lpd. CUPS seems to be designed for former windows users who need a graphical interface to set up a printcap file. For anybody else, even with more than enough RAM I would always recommend lpd or lprng. I use them with magicfilter, but apsfilter seems to do an equally good job.
HTH
Which one is best? :
gnulpr - GNUlpr printing system. lpr - BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system lpr-ppd - BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system lprng - lpr/lpd printer spooling system pdq - Simple printing system for workstations rlpr - A utility for lpd printing without using /etc/printcap tlpr - a Trivial LPR client
Are there others? (i have a postscript laser and an epson stylus inkjet)
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