On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 22:40, James Nickerson wrote: > Thank you, thank you, thank you. CUPS is now high on my list of cool > things. That web based setup at http://localhost:631 is one of the > niftiest little gimmicks I've seen (mainly because it actually worked, > after endless hours of toying with foomatic, lpadmin, etc.etc. etc.) > Anyone else that's having trouble, install everything and its dog that > even pretends to have the word CUPS in it, and then follow Michael's > advice. Wow, it's so refreshing to be able to not have to boot into the > accursed windows to print.
Glad you had success. Cups made a lot more sense to me once I realized how to add ppd files to cups to describe printers. The interesting thing about CUPS is that it has no built-in driver system. Instead it relies of foomatic, gimp-print, or any other filtering system. The PPD file then describes the way cups should interact with the printer and all the special options for it. It's very nice. Although I haven't made this work yet for me, apparently cups should be able to go out and search for other cups servers around it and gain access to those printers. That would make setting up network printing a snap. If anyone knows how to get that working, I'd be interested in hearing how. cheers, Michael -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
