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Apple Licenses CUPS

Posted by pudge on from the two-steps-forward-one-step-back dept.

bmeteor writes: "Short and very sweet: CUPS is licensed by Apple. A boon for both Apple and GNU." CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is a system based on the Internet Printing Protocol for standardized printing on Unix systems. That's nice, but when can I print over the network to my Epson inkjet, like I can in Mac OS 9 with USB Printer Sharing?

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  1. Re:CUPS vs OMNI by nbvb · · Score: 5, Informative

    As my (admittedly small) brain recalls, the OMNI drivers are an offshoot of the OS/2 project.

    OS/2 had some of the best printer support I'd ever seen (at the time.)

    By OS/2 Warp 4 (Merlin), the Omni print driver was there for just about every printer you could get your hands on...

    This is just like IBM -- make some seriously high-quality software, but never tell anyone about it...

    _sigh_

    --NBVB

  2. Re:CUPS vs OMNI by listen · · Score: 5, Informative

    AFAIK....

    Omni is a set of drivers. It competes with the standard gs drivers and gimp-print.

    CUPS is a queueing system. It competes with LPRng, PDQ, etc.