[cups.general] Windows port of CUPS

[Michael R Sweet]

Dave wrote:
> I see a lot of messages from people who have Windows clients connecting to a CUPS server, or drivers that send print jobs to printers shared by Windows devices over SMB. But we have an app on another platform that prints to a CUPS server, and would really like to print to a Windows-based CUPS server. Some people, we've found to our shock, don't have Macs or other UNIX boxes yet.
> 
> Is there a good Windows port of CUPS?

No, and you aren't likely to see one any time soon since Windows
doesn't provide the necessary APIs to support a UNIX-style server like
CUPS.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer