[Tfug] LPD vs LPRng vs CUPS

[Predrag Punosevac]

Dear ALL,
I am engaged in a discussion on OpenBSD forum (mostly as a listener) about  
Unix printing and I would like to hear
some opinion from hard core system administrators about differences of  
these three common Unix printing systems.
I want to learn the things. Hence this thread.

I would especially appreciate opinion of the people who were managing  
large printer servers (200-300 printers) and
their experience with editing printcap file. Any thoughts on security.  
Seems to me that LPD as a system which comes
with the base installation of BSD flavours ( I am not sure but I think I  
heard that Debian was using LPRng as default at least in the
past) has security advantage over CUPS.

I personally have used LPD but with apsfilter and CUPS and I will install  
LPRng on one of my rigs just to learn little bit about it.

Any good impartial textbooks which go in detail about Unix printing.


Predrag