[cups.general] Updating CUPS driver on a MAC

[Michael Sweet]

On Oct 1, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Steve Sweeney wrote:
> Could someone confirm that in order to update the CUPS driver on a  
> MAC, it is necessary to auto update the MAC OS?

"the" CUPS driver?  If you mean the sample drivers bundled with CUPS,  
then yes. For any other driver, no.

> We found that by updating our MAC Leopard OS we moved up two  
> versions of CUPS.  However, we did not find a way to update just the  
> CUPS driver itself.  Also, is there a cutoff point for CUPS driver  
> updates?  Is it necessary to go to Snow Leopard in order to move up  
> to 1.4.0 and above of CUPS?


In general, CUPS drivers are totally independent of the version of  
CUPS installed on your system.

As for updating to newer versions of CUPS, you'll only get 1.4.x from  
Apple by upgrading to Snow Leopard.  Leopard will never be updated  
past 1.3.11.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer