> All in all printing is not good on solaris. This is with the default
> printing suystem, so no cups involved. Maybe I must change to cups?
> I also have to say that all printing actually is done on the S10 server,
> which has a HP-Laserjet connected. I have no idea how good CUPS for
> soalris-10 is. Any ideas?

I am very happy with CUPS on Solaris.  I did compile my own though, and as a
drop-in replacement for the Solaris print system (i.e. remove the Solaris
print system packages and install CUPS in system locations such as /usr/bin
/etc/cups /var/spool/cups).  We are currently running 1.3.6, handling 62
printers for a number of Sun Rays and Linux workstations.  Interestingly
enough, in our setup, we've found that the Solaris CUPS server has been
better than a CUPS server running on a Linux machine that we used to have
(which could have been completely due to incorrect configuration).

I can't really compare it to the Solaris print system though...CUPS was a
must for us so I've never really used the Solaris print system.

William Yang


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