[cups.general] Apple Cups solution

[Tom Allison]

I'm not certain that I'm even subscribed today -- been having troubles 
with that -- but I have found the solution to something that might be of 
value to the Cups community.

Apple made some changes with the Leopard installation that causes some 
problems with printing.  Namely, they removed the client configuration 
and some applications seem to just crash for me.


Here's a fix that is consistent with Apple and Cups:

on the apple computer go to localhost:631 and add a printer.
Make it a IPP printer using the URL from the cups server to see the 
printer queue (this is the URL under the name of the printer on the tab 
Printers).

Set it to RAW.  This passes everything to the parent server and 
processes the content there and not at your apple computer.

This seems to work very well on several computers I've set up so far.a

But the essentials of the solution are to use the localhost cups server 
to queue and pass the print jobs to the next print server.