Re: printer recommendations

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jan 30,  6:57pm, perry%piermont.com@localhost ("Perry E. Metzger") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: printer recommendations

| 
| "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> writes:
| >> 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.
| 
| IPP and PPD files are why I use CUPS. As I said, NetBSD's lpr really
| needs to handle both to work in the modern world well.

We could fix that... I spent a lot of time wondering why lpq, lpd etc.
stopped working after I installed CUPS, and did not realize I was using
/usr/pkg/bin/lpr instead of /usr/bin/lpr.

christos