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The CUPS web front-end also has rough edges; Apple maintains CUPS these days and OS X now ships with the web interface on :631 disabled. If you still need a pr
by cbhl 5y ago
The CUPS web front-end also has rough edges; Apple maintains CUPS these days and OS X now ships with the web interface on :631 disabled.
If you still need a print server, it can be well worth the extra $100 or so to buy a business-class printer with an IPP server in it, so that CUPS runs on a chip inside the printer instead of on a separate computer. (Generally anything that supports "Airprint" will do this, and also at the mid range you avoid the "printers whose ink cartridges are more expensive than the printer" zone.)
- BearOso 5y ago> Apple maintains CUPS these days Apple never really maintained CUPS. They hired the author, Michael Sweet, and he pretty much served as the printing team. He left Apple a couple years ago, and basically stalled their printing department. He’s recently become head of the Printer Working Group, and they’re all pushing IPP Everywhere towards greater adoption. It’s a laudable effort.
- GeekyBear 5y agoApple moved to IPP (branded as AirPrint) a decade ago. Google shut down Google Cloud Print in 2020 and moved to IPP. Microsoft announced that they were moving to IPP (branded as Universal Print) in 2020 as well. CUPS still exists because legacy printers don't have built in IPP support.
- jwatt 5y agoAfter he left, all his cups commits to Apple's public CUPS repo stopped[1] and his work continued in the OpenPrinting fork of CUPS[2]. Interestingly though, it seems he resumed committing to the Apple repo in March. I'm glad CUPS on macOS isn't going to be left behind, but I'm curious what happened there. 1. https://github.com/apple/cups/graphs/contributors https://github.com/apple/cups/graphs/contributors 2. https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/graphs/contributors https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/graphs/contributors