On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:14:35AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote: | Thank you. | | I was able to get remote printing to work. The printer is an HP | Laserjet attached to one machine's printer port. I had to create an | /etc/hosts.lpd file; listing the hosts in hosts.equiv didn't work, | contrary to the Printing HOWTO.
Cool. | I may take you up on the offer to help install cups. I like the | simple approach, however; and besides, isn't cups proprietary? CUPS is created by a company (commercial entity) but the CUPS system is free. I think the source is available too. The business model was that the system was free (build user base and interoperability) but support and better/more drivers would cost. I installed the cupsomatic-ppd package the other night and I have _lots_ of drivers now. The system is quite easy to use too. -D
