Tracer Bullet wrote:

As there has been much discussion about the CUPS printing setup in Linux here, I suddenly find myself with a question! ;-)

As I seem to be one of the few on this list that is actually using SuSE as a standard desktop OS with no networking, etc. involved, I find also that my requirements are somewhat different than some of the higher uses you guys put SuSE too. So, my question is this, should/would CUPS be beneficial to someone like me right now or would it be best to stay with the default Unix print setup that I am using without problems now? I have a HP Deskjet printer, so postscript is not a big consideration right now. I also realize, I won't stay in the simple setup forever for as I progress, I will also move into networking etc. with Linux. I do quite a bit of printing though and if CUPS will provide me with better control over printing, it would be a good idea to use it, right?

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As long as your current printing setup is doing what you want, I would stay with it. Where cups comes in handy is with printers that as not supported directly in Linux. Cups list of supported printers is greater than the standard Linux distro. Cups does usually support all the features of a printer (duplex, color, envelopes, etc) that the Linux distro may not. Going to a network setup, the printer is made a network printer instead of local. Your printer setup should not have to be changed for that. As far as better control is concerned, if you are able to do everything you need to with your current setup, you probably would not gain anything with cups. Nevada