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The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge)The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge)Posted Mar 2, 2004 8:40 UTC (Tue) by cdamian (subscriber, #1271)In reply to: The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge) by Aguila Parent article: The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge) I recently had to set up a Mac running OS X to work with a HP OfficeJet G95 printer. The printer is connected to the network and presents itself as a lpd queue supporting postscript. The problems I had were very similar to the ones ESR had with cups. The printer setup on Mac OS X is horrible (for someone who doesn't usually work with Macs), it takes ages even to find the menus/dialogs to do the trick. Then it had problems to work together with the printer at all. After some research on the net it turns out OS X uses cups too, so I turned on the cups sharing on one of the linux boxes, opened the cups configuration website on the Mac to check if the printer turned up, which it did. So the problems are very similar and if I think back to the state of printing over time with the computers I had, printers were always a problem. There are just to many different models, drivers, protocols and connections around. Christof
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