From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 11:24:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2C2106566B for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:24:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feenberg@nber.org) Received: from mail2.nber.org (mail2.nber.org [66.251.72.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7A68FC08 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nber6.nber.org (nber6.nber.org [66.251.72.76]) by mail2.nber.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9SBNwAc082934; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:23:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from feenberg@nber.org) Received: from localhost (feenberg@localhost) by nber6.nber.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id p9SBMj8j018663; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:22:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: nber6.nber.org: feenberg owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:22:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Feenberg X-X-Sender: feenberg@nber6 To: Mark Felder In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <15996.1319704110@tristatelogic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux Mail Server 5.6.39/RELEASE, bases: 20111028 #5557405, check: 20111028 clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:24:25 -0000 On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Mark Felder wrote: > You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would > take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs > are instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to > go home and do the same with my personal laser. Has anyone here experience with PDQ? It is a printing system that appears to address the problems cited in this thread. http://pdq.sourceforge.net/ Quoting from the website: Most casual unix users regard lp and lpr as black holes to which print jobs disappear, and may or may not emerge. I haven't tried it, as we have been able to make CUPS work (barely), but I am sympathetic to the sentiments expressed. Other than Windows-specific printers, FreeBSD printing problems are home-grown, and not caused by vendor misbehavior. Daniel Feenberg