On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > Hi, Paul. > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:28:16AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > This is rather odd. For the longest, every time I had a cups update, I had >> > to delete my printers then add them back again. It would not print until I >> > did so. > >> I have to do that every time I plug my printer in... > >> I print so infrequently, every time I want to print I turn the printer >> on and plug it into my PC, and then spend 25 minutes trying to make it >> work with CUPS again. > > I also print infrequently. I turn my printer on, and it simply works, > straight away (after warming up; it's a laser printer). > > However, I use lprng, not cups. It's good that we have a choice over > what software we use, isn't it? ;-(
It could be that IPP is just becoming the preferred protocol, and other print queue managing protocols are going the way of Gopher. Is there a simple IPP daemon which could wrap lprng? -- :wq
