On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:52:32 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 12:16 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: >> The backend stuff (foomatic, cups et all) seem to work well > > Really the situation here is pretty dire too. There isn't any > synchronization between CUPS and Foomatic in terms of what drivers to use, > default settings to apply, etc. If you happen to get the right driver for > your printer, it's because the high-level tools (YaST on SUSE, for > example) use some surprisingly effective yet still error prone heuristics > to try to match them up. The foomatic database has over 1000 printers > listed, but USB ids for fewer than two dozen. > > The HAL backend for CUPS that I wrote about 18 months ago helps the > situation some in terms of presenting a single view of printers to client > applications, but users still have to tell the computer what model their > printer is to get drivers, and that sucks. > > Joe
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