Norm Jacobs wrote:
> Joel Buckley wrote:
>> Ghee.Teo at sun.com wrote:
>>> I thought OpenOffice 2.0/StarOffice 8 has been made CUPS
>>> compatible and does not needs its own directory to obtain
>>> PPD files.
>>
>> Are there plans to make CUPS the Solaris 11 default printer management?
>>
> see below
>> The user interface to this is very simple and is the only printing
>> system I
>> found to be both (1) available on Linux & Solaris X86 and (2) capable of
>> properly communicating with any printer I have gotten.
>>
> The printer not working may be largely a printer driver/ppd file update
> issue. Several of the packages that supply printer drivers and ppd files
> are woefully out of date.
This will be one of the thing OpenSolaris Printing will have to
address, preferably working with vendor in a neutral repositories so
that these can be used by any platforms.
>> Are there any plans to ship CUPS instead of IPP Listener on Solaris 11
>> DVDs?
>>
> No, however, once the PAPI client commands are delivered, I will update
> and repackage the version of CUPS in the Companion so that it is
> non-conflicting. I run both Solaris LP and CUPS simultaneously on
> my system (for testing) using the PAPI client commands to interact
> with either one.
>
Excellent! How difficult is this for OpenSolaris Users to set this up
once you have packaged CUPS?
-Ghee
