<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:09 PM, gene heskett wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">...</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>It is supposed to Cynthia, else you would have to run it every time you <br>wanted to print something.</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Gene,</div><div><br></div><div>Normally cupsd is *not* running on Mac OS X, and hasn't for a long time. Instead, we launch-on-demand whenever somebody connects to one of our ports via the launchd service. The only exception is when printer sharing is turned on or you are using CUPS browsing on a client (since cupsd needs to be running to see the printer advertisements from the servers...)</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>...<br>I also snipped about 8.5 kilobytes of useless html code which your email <br>agent did not properly mark with mimetype and is mostly junk text to a <br>text-base email agent. Please do not post html encoded emails to any <br>mailing list. It adds bulk to the message, and if not accompanied by plain <br>text, will usually be ignored by most folks as it is rather hard to pick <br>your message out of the html formatting codes it is buried in.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>WRT HTML email, we don't block or discriminate based on your choice of format. Most email programs can handle HTML just fine these days, and certainly somebody that is asking a question can't be expected to know the preferences of individual mailing list readers.</div><div><br></div><div>__________________________________________________<br>Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair<br></div><br></body></html>