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Autor: Didier Kryn
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A: dng
Assumpte: Re: [DNG] Connect Mac laptop to linux printer
Le 09/04/2023 à 02:18, wirelessduck--- via Dng a écrit :
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>> 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.
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> Not quite. CUPS was originally developed by Michael Sweet of Easy
> Software Products, who later sold it to Apple in 2007.
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> This article gives a good overview of some of the current issues with
> zero configuration printing.
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> https://www.0xf8.org/2022/01/how-apple-and-avahi-effectively-killed-cups-printer-discovery-for-enterprise-linux-environments/
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    OK guys. you know it better than me. But the good point point is
that it's probably possible to install Cups on Mac.