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Re: Suggestion for a hard drive CUPS-like data base
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Lamar Owen <[log in to unmask]>
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Lamar Owen <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:57:28 -0400
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On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 01:25:43 PM you wrote:
> I have found that modern CUPS printer support configuration tools under 
> EL have a fairly complete data base of the drivers/parameters needed for 
> vendor specific printers.

> To some extent, this seems to include even reverse engineered data for 
> printers for which the vendor will not provide any detailed public 
> specifications and only provides proprietary "drivers" to the monopoly 
> (and sometimes, Apple).

You do realize that Apple is the primary developer of CUPS, right?  And that CUPS is the Mac OS X printing backend, right?  There's a good reason CUPS has such broad support.

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