Grr.... cups....progress

[Collins]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:18:28 -0500
Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> Just in case you have trouble with cups:
> 

[ tale of woe snipped ]

I, too, have had good results with lprng and mixed results with cups.

Cups is one of those packages that tries to do too many things and not
all of them successfully.  About a year ago I gave up on cups.  It would
run until the next upgrade, then not work.  Cups also royally screwed up
the way ghostscript workds and came out with their own version which
didn't work very well (or not at all) for a long time.

However, the latest installs I have done (SUSE 9.0 and a new gnetoo
install with cups) all use cups, and it just works.

Another anoying feature of cups:  sometimes they don't get the
ghostscript parameters correct, and the printer prints every page as a
separate file which kills printer throughput.

And another: you have to emerge separate packages to get support for any
printers that aren't ancient.

Summary: if cups works, it's ok, but it doesn't always work.

-- 
Collins