On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Peter A. Giessel <pgies...@mac.com> wrote: > 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?
In some cases, yes. In other cases, where the manufacturer is supplying an OS X driver that doesn't come with CUPS/Gutenprint, the additional driver bits may not be FreeBSD-compatible. I may be the only person here who actually likes CUPS. Yes, it's complicated from a software standpoint, but configuring it is much less opaque. Printers really are complicated, so having a GUI to help set them up is nice. I remember having to manually write and debug filter scripts and edit /etc/printcap by hand, and I'm quite glad those days are over. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
