[cups.general] Printer driver for Mac
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Tue Dec 2 17:11:33 PST 2008
On 2008 Dec 2, at 14:22, 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?
OSX printer drivers have two components: the lower level is CUPS, the
upper level is an OSX GUI. For printer drivers, unless you need
special features, you can use a CUPS driver and the standard GUI. If
the standard driver isn't enough, it will be necessary to write
something at the higher level (which will probably plug in as a pane
in the standard print dialog); the developer.apple.com link should get
you (or your developer) started on that.
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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