On 14 Mar 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-14 22:28, Mitchell Laks wrote: > >On 22:05 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote: > >>3 PCs or 3 printers? > > > >Three different pcs, each with a hp printer directly connected to > >it via a usb cable using cups printing. > > > >Note that cups has always been flakey for me. So I have not infrequently had > >to reinstall the printer driver to get it working over the years. > >I have used debian since 2002 or so. Before that redhat 7.3. > > > > Cups has been the opposite for me: rock stable. Since I run Sid, > I'm of course constantly getting point upgrades, but as for > problems: nada. > > My system is pretty different though: a Dell 3100cn network printer > that uses some Lexmark driver. >
I've always found Cups a waste of time and space, I get better results, without hassles, using lprng and magicfilter. This is on a number of different printers - Kyocera, Samsung, Brother ... Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315095505.gb1...@acampbell.org.uk
