Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:36:29 -0800 From: "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com> To: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer Message-ID: <r314ps-1064i-7010CD50729840EFB7791BB041B9ADC3@Blue-Star-2.local> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin7%2BL3V5q7028KF_cdoZncjsj-KWRE2zdwLUrNk@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2010/09/22 at 9:27, gull@gull.us (David Brodbeck) wrote: >If this were true, and there really were a big conspiracy on >Microsoft's part to make manufacturers only support Windows, then you >wouldn't see cheap printers that support both Windows and MacOS X. In >reality, such printers are pretty easy to find. > >Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by simple economics. ;) The question you are missing is *HOW* does MacOS X print to all these "cheap printers"? Lets take a couple of screen captures from Mac OS X.6 (Apple's latest released OS) with all current updates installed: http://giessel.org/pictures/OSX_printers1.png http://giessel.org/pictures/OSX_printers2.png Hmm, CUPS, and Gutenprint.... Are these methods available for FreeBSD? Mainly what Apple did was pre-install and pre-configure in a user-friendly way CUPS and Gutenprint.
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