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CUPS vs Sun vs LPRngCUPS vs Sun vs LPRngPosted Jul 19, 2007 17:47 UTC (Thu) by emk (subscriber, #1128)In reply to: CUPS vs Sun vs LPRng by rfunk Parent article: Apple buys cups
The other big advantage of CUPS is for laptop users, who roam onto all sorts of strange networks, and need to talk to a wide variety of printers. And CUPS handles this pretty well, though not nearly as well as MacOS X (which has ZeroConf auto-discovery of network printers).
It won't be too long before Linux users can see a list of all the printers on the local subnet, click on one, and print.
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CUPS autodiscovery Posted Jul 19, 2007 17:54 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] That only works if all those strange networks have printer broadcasting turned on -- IOW,those "strange" networks are also running CUPS.
CUPS autodiscovery Posted Jul 21, 2007 20:37 UTC (Sat) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] One thing I'd like to see is for CUPS to adopt DNS-SD for printer discovery. I wonder if Apple's acquisition of the code base will make this more likely. Probably not as they already modify CUPS on OS X to use it, but haven't bothered to contribute the code back upstream.
CUPS autodiscovery Posted Jul 22, 2007 17:06 UTC (Sun) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link] I guess you should never let some facts get in the way of a good troll. From the release notes forCUPS 1.3b1: - Added support for DNS-SD (aka "Bonjour") printer sharing (STR #1171)
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L479
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