Re: Printing woes

[frank brierley <frank brierley id au>]

Thank you for the link Jonathan,

There is no doubt that cups installs and runs on the BSD platforms. 
There may well be a good set of arguments for tying gnome-print to cups, 
 just as there may well be good reasons for choosing to print through 
lpd, or any other printing system.

Limited time has resulted in a focusing of effort within the gnome-print 
project towards the integration of cups.  This suggest that while we 
don't need gnome to run gnumeric, we do need cups to print.

But is this restriction wise?  Might there not be benefits in allowing 
choice?  The KDEPrint project seems to think so 
http://printing.kde.org/info/#module

I believe it would be a serious mistake for gnome-print to be written to 
encapsulate cups exclusively.  I hope, however, that gnome-print has no 
direct interest in embedding cups but merely acts as a front end.  A 
front end scheme would open the door for modular support for any other 
system, and that an lpd module could be written, time permitting.

Andreas says "lpr is always assumed to be available to fall back to." If 
lpd is to be relied upon when all else fails shouldn't it at least 
receive some nominal support?

Frank


Drews, Jonathan* wrote:
> Hi Frank:
>
>  CUPS works great on FreeBSD (and NetBSD for that matter). It's very easy to
> configure. I have used CUPS on both FreeBSD 4.9 and % current as well as
> NetBSD. 
>
> Go to http://linuxprinting.org/ and find out what print driver you need.
> You will probably want to install Gimp Print (/usr/ports/print/gimp-print
> IIRC)
>
> To set up Cups on FreeBSD:
>
> 1) Install the CUPS meta port /usr/ports/print/cups
> 2) cd (as root i.e. #) to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and copy the
> cups.sh.sample to cups.sh
> 3) Make sure that cups.sh is executable.
> 4) do: # ./cups.sh start
> 5) now that the cups daemon is started do:
> # lynx http://localhost:631/admin
> (you can also do this from a user account using a regular browser).
> In both cases you will have to log into root. The web browser will pop
> up a login.
> 6) You can now add a new printer through your browser. See the
> screenshots here for an example:
> http://www.silbsd.org/CUPS-NetBSD_landscape.html
> I know this is for NetBSD but from step 5 to 15 it's the same on FreeBSD.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: frank brierley [mailto:frank brierley id au] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:16 PM
> To: Andreas J. Guelzow; gnome-print; gnumeric
> Subject: Re: Printing woes
>
>
> And secondly, it doesn't require the installation of any additional 
> packages as it comes as a component of the operating system (FreeBSD). 
>
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