cups really sucks

[Paul Conklin]

I think part of the problem that you are facing is what we face a lot with our clients, however CUPS is not at fault.  The printer is accepting the print job from CUPS, therefore from it's perspective everything is good, no errors.  The problem with "cheap" printers is they don't support PostScript usually, so you have to go through a series of "filters" to get the print language in something that the printer understands.  Picture it like this, you get a letter from Greece and it was sent with Delivery Confirmation.  You get the letter, and UPS confirms you signed for it, but since you don't understand it, you throw it away.  It's not UPS's fault that you don't speak greek, they are just the transport mechanisim.

> Hi All,
>
> > Cups sucks. If I have to read more pages than what is  "The C programming
> > Language" just to get my fscking
>
> The guy has a HUGE point.  EVERYTIME i reinstall linux it is a nightmare to get
> certain cheap printers working.  (Yes he is right, the high end PS printers work
> fine on CUPS.)  CUPS quite simply sucks.  If it is literally magic to get cheap
> printer working you guys have gone terribly wrong.  The fact that even WITH the
> infolevel set to DEBUG in cupsd.conf there are 0 error messages (every access
> etc is logged, but no information other than "failure , exit success") as to
> what went wrong.   I know you guys think because you have been programming for 5
> years that you are "experts" but WAKE UP, you need actual error messages not
> just redirect the access log to the error file.
>
> There is simply no reason for something as problematic as CUPS to be exist.
>
> Good Luck
>
> Crazy Pete
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