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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Printing -- now even pdf works. I have no idea why.
Le 22/04/2016 22:24, Rainer Weikusat a écrit :
> Simon Hobson<linux@???> writes:
>> >Didier Kryn<kryn@???> wrote:
>> >
>>> >> You can configure cups through the web interface or by editing the config files. Editing the config files is easy, apart from understanding the meaning of the variables from their names. But there are howtos. For one-time actions like resuming operation of a printer, I don't know how to do it but with the web interface.
>> >
>> >FWIW I think the idea behind CUPS is a good one - though I haven't
>> >really fiddled with it. The idea of separating out the input
>> >transport, format conversions (via a standardised intermediate
>> >format), and output transports, seems to fit in well with the unix
>> >philosophy of modularity.
> That's exactly how a lpr/lpd system works, too.

     I don't remember lpr can present you a list of printers, telling 
where they are, which kind of paper, page size and double-side they 
handle, if they're ready to print and if they're lacking ink. Not all of 
this actually works well in Cups, but at least it has this ambition.


     If you run a properly configured Cups on your laptop, you can go 
anywhere, enter the local Cups server address in the config and then you 
can use all the printers out there; if they add or remove a printer, you 
see the change immediately.


     With lpr you must manually edit a config line for every single 
printer you want to be able to ever use, and every computer in your 
company must be configured everytime they add or remove a printer.


     Didier