Printing without CUPS!?

egan · 2010-08-27 01:52:47

CUPS is really aggravating me. It hasn't worked without a stupid page delay for almost a year now. It just isn't viable.

So I would like some tips on printing without CUPS. I don't need printer sharing, so spooling is unnecessary, right? I think my printer is able to take postscript, but how do I send postscript files (over usb)?
I have heard that you can use only the foomatic filters with no spooler. I have no idea how to do any of this stuff. But I need printing that doesn't take forever, and doesn't put errors on my pages!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

JackH79 · 2010-08-27 06:25:01

Admittedly, it's quite a few years old, but this'll probably give you some pointers where you should invest some research if you don't want to use CUPS.

brebs · 2010-08-27 08:10:27

You should use the CUPS bugzilla.

egan · 2010-08-27 13:47:04

brebs wrote:

You should use the CUPS bugzilla.

The relevant bug report has been on there since November of 2009.

Jack79 wrote:

Admittedly, it's quite a few years old, but this'll probably give you some pointers where you should invest some research if you don't want to use CUPS.

Thanks for the resource, I will look into it.

Last edited by egan (2010-08-27 13:47:25)

Tom4hawk · 2010-08-27 20:18:20

You should give a chance to Apsfilter. I was using it with kernel 2.4 few years ago

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Printing without CUPS!?

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