[Wylug-discuss] CUPS

[James Holden (WYLUG)]

John Hodrien wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, James Holden (WYLUG) wrote:
>
>
>>Aside from the RH/Fedora GUI tool, the CUPS browser interface is
>>seriously lacking. You have to resort to command line stuff to get
>>printers added (via foomatic-configure) and the defaults for browsing
>>and discovery and access are senseless.
>
>
> The Redhat tools have been shocking for a while, using CUPS as a default but
> working better with LPRng.  Why do you have to resort to the command-line to
> add a printer?  What's wrong with the defaults (for home use)?
[snip]

Because it doesn't come with PPDs for the gimp-print drivers. You can
only get the full set of driver options if you use the ppds from the
foomatic db.

James