From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 12:48:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8926216A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:48:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7A543F93 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:47:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hANKlreC007556; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:47:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by realtime.exit.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hANKlr68055817; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:47:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@realtime.exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id hANKllHo055816; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:47:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200311232047.hANKllHo055816@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:47:47 -0800 (PST) X-Copyright0: Copyright 2003 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99f (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UNKNOWN-8BIT cc: chat@freebsd.org cc: Soren Schmidt Subject: Re: printing problems lpr/lpd misbehavior ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank@exit.com List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:48:02 -0000 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Andreas Klemm writes: > > q: What makes cups so special that one should try it out ? > > What can it do better than apsfilter which IMHO isn't as bloated > > as cups and has better features... > apsfilter is in my experience a lot more difficult and confusing to > configure, and I don't think I ever figured out how to do things like > switch duplex on / off etc. CUPS has a web-based configuration > interface which is very simple to use. It's also pretty cool that you configure the printers on their various systems and every other system running cups picks them up automatically. I discovered this after I had configured cups on my print system and then installed it on my laptop. All I had to do was a portinstall and start the daemon and it just worked. I _like_ that. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/