Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Scheme Loh <schemebot@xxxxxxxxx>]

> (OSX). I mean if your gonna give up on things such
> as CUPS then your
> really, really gonna hate the fact that Apple
> licensed CUPS/ESP Pro from
> ESP and is integrating it into the next full version
> of OSX due out in

I quit printing on Linux - lprng and CUPS.

I know OSX will use CUPS and I've never even gotten my
Stylus Color 980 to work under OSX with Epson's horrid
v1.0 drivers. Gutenburg is laughing, no doubt.

Luckily my world is small, well under 10 users, so
it's more a personal failure on my part, than a big
problem for my workflow.

Suse almost worked as a print server, it just never
totally worked, and was never that reliable when it
did work. The real killer for me was postscript.
Illustrator/PDF files from my Macs would just spit out
page after page of junk. I used and set-up the Macs
several times using HP drivers, and I configured the
printer via Linux linux times and they just never
meshed.

For the most part, text documents and picture would
print from both Macs and w2k. But far too many hangs,
loosing the ability to print altogether, and pages of
junk to make this truly viable in my case.

Thanks to the list for not calling me a "retarded
whiner", but I have dealt with this for a long time
and last night when my paper tray quickly spat out 100
pages of postscript junk, that was it. Rage left my
body, I felt a calming peace sweep over me, my room
got real bright, and a vision told me to just give it
up, it ain't worth it.

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