CUPS vs Sun vs LPRng
CUPS vs Sun vs LPRng
Posted Jul 19, 2007 16:04 UTC (Thu) by bkw1a (guest, #4101)In reply to: CUPS vs Sun vs LPRng by rfunk
Parent article: Apple buys cups
I agree with your comments about CUPS vs. LPRng. CUPS is very
desktop-centric, and focuses on making life easier for the end user.
I've found it to be a nightmare to manage, though, compared to
something like LPRng, which is focused on the back end.
CUPS does, indeed make it easy for the end user to add printers
without having to know anything about print filters. But how often
do users need to add printers? (Especially in an enterprise
setting.) With LPRng, creating a print queue is straightforward
for the administrator, and the configuration files are understandable
later.
For the end user, LPRng provides the wonderful ability to type:
lpr -P printer@printserver myfile.ps
without having to set up any printers on his/her local machine.
I take the Unixy view that the end user shouldn't need to know
what type of printer he/she's printing to. The print filters on the
print server should take care of this, and all the end user should
need is the printer name. I agree that this raises questions about how
to let the end user tweak the output, but my users have been largely
happy with "-Zsimplex", etc. for a long time.
Posted Jul 19, 2007 17:32 UTC (Thu)
by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
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Yes its a phenomenal waste of resources, money, paper, etc... but the problem occurs that when people are not comfortable with technology, they want an environment that they assured has a lot of redundency (in this case printers) in case they cant get something done by that unplanned meeting at 4pm.
Posted Jul 19, 2007 18:41 UTC (Thu)
by mightyduck (guest, #23760)
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lpr -P printer myfile.ps
The printers are automatically created on the users desktop via broadcast
In an enterprise setting, I see about 10 new printers a day (some are just moved from one network to another but its a lot of changes that seem to occur). Some organizations I have worked for have had 2-3 different printers on each desktop [black & white laster, color inkjet, special printer for slides]. People have made it a work habit to print out a copy of the legal forms etc over on Jack's printer in finance for his report etc etc.CUPS vs Sun vs LPRng [How many printers do you need]
Have you ever used CUPS or are you just talking out of your rear end? CUPS vs Sun vs LPRng
With CUPS the user doesn't even have to know the printserver, the command
would be
(or polling in our case). I just create new printers on my print servers
and I'm done. CUPS is even so smart to combine printers with the same
name from different print servers into one class and use the servers
kind-of round-robin. All the filtering and everything is done on the
server.