[cups.general] what's the difference between CUPS and hpijs?

[Michael Sweet]

On Nov 11, 2009, at 5:59 PM, wang wei wrote:
> Hi:
>   recently,i encountered with the printer project.my target is to  
> write a driver for my board.my target platform is ARM9,and my OS is  
> UCOS-ii.I want to know what's the difference between CUPS and hpijs? 
> if i want to use CUPS on my platform,what shall i do?


CUPS is a printing system. HPIJS is the old raster interface to  
Ghostscript and was what the HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP)  
project used until recently.

Are you writing code that will run on your printer, or are you writing  
code for an embedded device that is talking to a printer?

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer