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Time to switch to decaf - Version: 0036, 11/4/2008 07:01AM PST
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Manuel Deschambault
Funny for me to find out I'm a fictitious character. If you must know, I did have 700 macs under my belt, spread out in 8 buildings in a 100 square mile grid. I say did because I've recently upgraded my employment status :-)
As for no company in the USA trusting 700 macs to one person, I wouldn't know since I'm canadian.
The Developer mentions clearly that this is a scripting solution for System Administrators and unix savvy users. You mention that this is not for the average Joe and his printer, wow, you're quick!
Since when would a home user need to implement scripted printer deployment?!?!
So please start taking your medication again, and leave this thread to actual IT guys who use this product instead of bashing a nice FREE product.
As far as your warning to stay away from anything that modifies CUPS, I actually agree with you 100%, that is a bad can of worms to open. But since this product IN NO WAY does that, it is you who make my point.
Anyone who is looking at giving this a try, you can play with this without any risk to your system's integrity, this will only generate pref and config files and won't mess with the CUPS plumbing.
TheMacTech
As for no company in the USA trusting 700 macs to one person, I wouldn't know since I'm canadian.
The Developer mentions clearly that this is a scripting solution for System Administrators and unix savvy users. You mention that this is not for the average Joe and his printer, wow, you're quick!
Since when would a home user need to implement scripted printer deployment?!?!
So please start taking your medication again, and leave this thread to actual IT guys who use this product instead of bashing a nice FREE product.
As far as your warning to stay away from anything that modifies CUPS, I actually agree with you 100%, that is a bad can of worms to open. But since this product IN NO WAY does that, it is you who make my point.
Anyone who is looking at giving this a try, you can play with this without any risk to your system's integrity, this will only generate pref and config files and won't mess with the CUPS plumbing.
TheMacTech
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- Thank you for defending PrinterSetup!
Actually bucko, proceed... - Version: 0026, 5/1/2008 11:11AM PST
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manuel.deschambault
This in no way messes with CUPS. This is a nice utility to automate printer creation. I use it in maintaining and deploying my 700 macs, and its a great timesaver.
Its beta, so some blood and sweat must be invested but the developpers are great and have answered all my questions, so kudos. I can now create printers on my machines by simply dragging a few icons. And in my next source release, the process will be fully automated.
Its beta, so some blood and sweat must be invested but the developpers are great and have answered all my questions, so kudos. I can now create printers on my machines by simply dragging a few icons. And in my next source release, the process will be fully automated.
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I bought a DYMO DiscPainter, installed all software, updated to latest. Wouldn't work (stuck at "rendering". Googled the error message I was using. Turns out you had to "modify printer" from the CUPS localhost site, correcting it to "generic USB" device. Bang. Printer works.
My girlfriend has an Epson CX8400 all-in-one. It stopped printing at some point. Reinstalled correct Epson drivers for her (10.4.11) computer. Didn't work, but her printer worked perfectly with the latest Epson Leopard drivers (I'm running Leopard on my computer). So installed "Gutenprint" (i.e. 3d party) on hers. When adding the printer to her computer used "Cups EPSON 8400 + Gutenprint" (instead of just "EPSON CX8400", which was the first choice). Guess what, the thing starts working, even through airport extreme.
The moral of the story "messing" with CUPS and installing "3d party" versions sometimes does the trick when nothing else will. If by "messing with CUPS" one means compiling the latest source code and installing on one's system, I have to agree. I did this once. It held up until the next security update. That update so hosed my (modified) printing system I had to do an archive and install. (I did the compiling because Apple's version of CUPS is always behind the main one, and a lot of what they do is security fixes. One has to assume Apple is handling these security fixes in some other manner. Or at least one hopes they are (they now OWN CUPS, after all!). Certainly they don't bring out the latest version of CUPS as they come out (same thing with JAVA). You have to wait for them to get around to it. I find this irritating. I love Apple, but they are control freaks.
Don't do things for the hell of it, but if you know what you're doing, having some rudimentary knowledge of your computer's software and printing architecture can be a good idea...and sometimes you need bigger interventions, like this software.