http://www.osnews.com/story/14562/Common_UNIX_Printing_System_1_2_0_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:35:57 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?122794 http://osnews.com/thread?122794 One would think the printing system that has practically a monopoly outside Windows computers (which makes using 'alt-OS' feasible at all for buisness users that can't shell out for custom drivers), would draw more comments. Every Nix and Macs uses CUPS, AFAIK. Tue, 09 May 2006 21:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ronald Vos) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?122805 http://osnews.com/thread?122805 Yeah, it's quite surprising.

I'm quite eager to test the new release. I hope it will fix the little quirks I had with Windows and Linux. Auto-SSL is a plus. Tue, 09 May 2006 22:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wrawrat) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?122826 http://osnews.com/thread?122826 Maybe because for most of us, it just works. Tue, 09 May 2006 22:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Shaman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?122842 http://osnews.com/thread?122842 Does anyone know how well CUPS stands up to Microsoft's new Vista Print engine? Tue, 09 May 2006 22:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xioztzu) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?122846 http://osnews.com/thread?122846 Every Nix and Macs uses CUPS, AFAIK

If you have a halfway decent printer, you don't need CUPS on *nix. /etc/printcap does the job fine and without a hundred million bytes of bloat. Tue, 09 May 2006 23:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eggman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?122867 http://osnews.com/thread?122867 CUPS is absolutely amazing. Too bad that too many distributions seem to f--k it up when setting it up. If set up properly CUPS makes auto-discovery of network printers damn easy and a joy. Tue, 09 May 2006 23:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (porcel) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?123023 http://osnews.com/thread?123023 "Every Nix and Macs uses CUPS, AFAIK."
Not every *nix is using CUPS and OSX does not. OSX does however use the IPP protocol that CUPS is also using. Wed, 10 May 2006 14:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?123054 http://osnews.com/thread?123054 OSX absolutely does use CUPS. Visit http://localhost:631 on your Mac. (At least 10.4, I dunno about others)

Good to see such an important project like this is being actively developed. This and X.org are what I would consider to be critical to the Unix-like operating system community, since they are so widely used. Wed, 10 May 2006 16:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ceekay) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?123056 http://osnews.com/thread?123056 Agreed. I think people should also stop spending time on writing gui interfaces for CUPS... it already has one installed by default- the web interface! I really wish more distros just had a link in their assorted "control panels" that opened up the CUPS admin page. Wed, 10 May 2006 16:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ceekay) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?123132 http://osnews.com/thread?123132 http://www.easysw.com/printpro/comparison.php

Do I need to buy ESP Print Pro?

Or are the 12 included printer drivers sufficient for most users?

Does Mac OSX include ESP Print Pro's 5300 printer drivers?

The license for ESP Print Pro sounds worse than Windows Activation http://www.easysw.com/printpro/faq.php?11#11 Wed, 10 May 2006 19:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ahalsey) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?123451 http://osnews.com/thread?123451 Check again buddy. Mac OS X uses CUPS.

And CUPS has more than 12 printer drivers without buying the ESP package. Thu, 11 May 2006 13:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Headrush) Comments