[cups.general] cups and published printers

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Aug 26 08:12:14 PDT 2008


Thomas Ricatte wrote:
> ...
> 1) I have a Cups server running on a debian testing and a Mac Os X
> client. All is ok if I add a printer on the mac with the ipp protocol
> but I want the Mac to detect the cups' published printers on my
> linux.

If you have the Debian system setup with a BrowseAddress, the CUPS
shared printers should show up in the Add Printer window, and it will
use the driver from the Linux system (i.e. just pass PostScript to
Debian...)

 > With the first solution, RIP is done by the Mac (i have to
> install thé driver on the Mac). I want the linux to do all the RIP
> and filtering jobs. I have tried to modify
> /private/etc/cups/client.conf on the Mac to force him to ask the
> published printers on the linux. It worked (printers appeared on the
> mac) but Mac os x crashes when i try to print...

The whole OS crashes?

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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