[Tfug] LPD vs LPRng vs CUPS

[erich]

I'm and amateur user, not an administrator,

           CUPS is in lpr, lpd, etc are out with the newer distros. Yes,
I have an old box with lpd, lpr,  apsfilter, etc. They're a pain
in the #*%, and I don't use them anymore.

           Basically print implementation comes in two layers now.
1)There is an underlying CUPS layer. 2)There is a printer driver layer.

           CUPS came about because of the difficulty with standards for
network printing.  I personally haven't implemented the network feature
of CUPS, but one thing is for sure: if you have two or more boxes on
a network, CUPS must be universally installed.

           Any further detail of my implementation would probably be
irrelivant to you because of distro differences, (I use Gentoo), and
hardware differences,(I have an HP Photosmart C4150 from Costco)

           My setup works like a champ.

                                                       Erich


           
Predrag Punosevac wrote:

>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
>
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