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PrinterSetup

PrinterSetup

Flexible, open-source printer setup system.

Version:  0041

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Time to switch to decaf

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Contributed by: Manuel Deschambault Tuesday, November 04 2008 @ 07:01 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

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   

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Thank you for defending PrinterSetup! - lucidsystems

Thank you very much for defending PrinterSetup.

We are now slightly more related to each other :

  • You use PrinterSetup
  • You defend the PrinterSetup project on VersionTracker

Again thank you for your support.

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Tuesday, November 04 2008 @ 05:18 PM PST