Submitted by “CUPS 1.2.0 is the first stable feature release in the 1.2.x series and includes over 90 new features and changes since CUPS 1.1.23, including a greatly improved web interface and ‘plug-and-print’ support for many local and network printers. For a complete list of changes and new features, please consult the ‘What’s New in CUPS 1.2‘ document.”
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.
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.
Maybe because for most of us, it just works.
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.
Does anyone know how well CUPS stands up to Microsoft’s new Vista Print engine?
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.
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.
“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.
Check again buddy. Mac OS X uses CUPS.
And CUPS has more than 12 printer drivers without buying the ESP package.
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.
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