Re: printer recommendations

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:54:17 +0000 (UTC)
christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

> In article <20080130084102.GA13735%lori.ghen.be@localhost>,
> Geert Hendrickx  <ghen%telenet.be@localhost> wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:05:55AM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> >> CUPS, period.
> >
> >Why?
> >
> >I never really liked CUPS, it's so complex and bloated.
> >
> >Plain lpd + pkgsrc/print/magicfilter (for postscript-to-native
> >conversion) works fine for me with several different HP printers.
> >
> 
> So do I; plus I was never able to make CUPS work just over the local
> printer socket.
> 

The big advantage of CUPS over lpd is the ability to handle PPD files.
In some environments, the ability to browse for printers is useful
(though I have that blocked via ipf when I don't need it), as is the
ability to print via ipp.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb