[cups.general] Full windows integration?

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Thu Nov 3 12:15:40 PDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 01:37 -0700, Olivier LAHAYE wrote:
> So my question, is there a cups client for windows that would replace
> windows printing related stuffs (print dialog, printer control
> panel, ...) to dynamicaly display available cups printers when
> selecting a printer from the print dialog box in windows?
> I'd like to have a cups client control panel with a field where you
> put your cups server name and nothing more....(a /etc/cups/client.conf
> control panel I would say).

Apples Bonjour, or I suppose another Bonjour/Avahi/ZeroConf print agent,
works well on windows.  CUPs printers are published into DNS from which
the Bonjour client detects them.  Only issue that is 'manual' is that an
appropriate driver must end up on the Windows workstation somehow.






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