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CUPS autodiscovery

CUPS autodiscovery

Posted Jul 19, 2007 17:54 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: CUPS vs Sun vs LPRng by emk
Parent article: Apple buys cups

That only works if all those strange networks have printer broadcasting turned on -- IOW,
those "strange" networks are also running CUPS.


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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 for
CUPS 1.3b1:
- Added support for DNS-SD (aka "Bonjour") printer sharing (STR #1171)

http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L479

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