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Autor: wirelessduck
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To: dng
Betreff: Re: [DNG] Connect Mac laptop to linux printer


> On 8 Apr 2023, at 23:09, Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
>     May be you don't know, but CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) was first developped by Apple. Later they built a new system, probably because they changed their mind about sharing something with non Apple machines. It seems you are dealing with this new system, but the good news is that CUPS is most probably still installable on Mac.

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>     Of, course, as a creation of Apple, CUPS is pretty complex: it mixes the concepts of client and server, allows hopping between separate networks,which should be forbidden, and allows looping over several hosts before reaching a printer which is available directly. But a neat configuration of CUPS gives good results.


Not quite. CUPS was originally developed by Michael Sweet of Easy Software Products, who later sold it to Apple in 2007.

This article gives a good overview of some of the current issues with zero configuration printing.

https://www.0xf8.org/2022/01/how-apple-and-avahi-effectively-killed-cups-printer-discovery-for-enterprise-linux-environments/