[Linux-disciples] Printing under Mandrake

Adam Kessel adam at rosi-kessel.org
Wed May 12 15:16:08 EDT 2004


On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:13:18PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:06:35PM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> > Since OS X is really BSD Unix, presumably you could run an lp daemon on
> > it.  But I don't know how to do it concretely.
> Apparently all the Macs in the office use Rendezvous to
> share the printer on one of the Macs. So there must be some
> easy way -- I would think -- to grab hold of that Rendezvous
> broadcast and get the printer shared through CUPS. Right?

I don't think cupsys supports Rendezvous, but OS X definitely supports
traditional BSD ('lpr') printing.  It's even possible that you can run
the CUPS daemon under OS X.
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Adam Kessel
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