[cups.general] Does CUPS ever work out of the box?

[angel bosch]

is sad to hear this kind of laments, but i assure you that cups IS being
used in several huge environments with none of your problems.

the only hint i can give you is try with debian ;)

El dc 01 de 12 del 2004 a les 00:03 -0500, en/na Nathan S. va escriure:
> Greetings.
> 
> I've posted several earlier CUPS related problems, with no real solution except to "buy the professional version that still is no guarantee that it will work."  My answer is that if I wanted to pay for something that doesn't work, I'd buy MS(c) Windows(tm).
> 
> Just another rant:  I've never been able to get CUPS to work "out of the box."  I've finally broken down and purchased SuSE 9.2pro and left Slackware for now, and have tried two printers...one a brand new color laser and one a really old monochrome laser.  Still, no printing with CUPS straight out of the box.  I've used the correct ppd's, everything appears to be set up correctly with a generic install, and still nothing.  Yes, I've used different printer cables.
> 
> Now I'm going to have to do my two-week troubleshoot dance that is never the same way twice...even on the same machine with the same printer and same software...I've finally gotten it rigged at work on an old machine, but I have to reload cupsd manually after every restart...luckily Linux doesn't need many...and after removing lprng and installing CUPS from source...not a new version, mind you, but several iterations old.
> 
> This is the only problem that persists in my foray into Linux.  Everything else works, eventually, but not this.  I'm never going to be able to put Linux into production with constant printing nightmares or crippled solutions.  Maybe it was ok when the only thing being printed was ASCII, but those days are no more.  I would hate to have to use a Windows(tm) box as a print server for my Linux machines, but I'm almost there.
> 
> Anyway, not that anyone cares or should, but I wouldn't mind paying for a real solution, and I'd bet there are a lot of others out there that wouldn't mind either.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> NS
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àngel bosch
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