On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 09:46 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 23:36 -0400, Michael Semcheski wrote: > > Are you sure about this? I've always used system-config-printer and > > always attributed the results to bad printer karma. That is to say, > > should I expect anything truly different with the cups web interface? > > In Fedora Core 6 and onwards, system-config-printer uses the same > interface as the CUPS web interface: the libcups API, which uses IPP to > talk to the CUPS server. > > You should get broadly the same results with either. > > Tim. > */ That is almost true. But I noticed on one machine that the cups web interface was not able to configure a Cannon printer but system-config-printer could. But the real problem is that the cups web interface is how one is supposed to configure printers in cups. system-config-printer is something that has only recently evolved to really work, Why use the fake when you can use the real thing. Further. although it is not important in this case, there are certain printer sharing situations that are hard to deal with in system-config-printer. ======================================================================= The absent ones are always at fault. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
