[cups.general] Printer driver for Mac

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Dec 2 16:46:25 PST 2008


Sebastian wrote:
> http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/GettingStarted/GS_Printing/
>  Following the link above I can read about the Mac OS X printing
> system for developers.
> 
> Then at Wikipedia, reading about CUPS i found the following: "Apple
> Computer has used CUPS as printing system in their operating system
> Mac OS X from Version 10.2 (Jaguar) on."
> 
> The link at developer.apple.com doesn't say anything about CUPS. So
> how is it? I'm looking for someone to develop a printer driver for
> Mac, am I looking for someone that knows CUPS?

Yes.  The printing documentation on Apple's web site is, unfortunately,
embarrassingly out of date.  All new printer drivers should be CUPS-
based.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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