CUPS question

[Tommy Trussell]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:

> I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but I don't know enough about
> CUPS to know. I have a utopic machine that acts as a file and print
> server, and I need to set up a print client. The problem is that my
> printer requires a binary-only driver that I can't run on the client.
>
> Is there any way to set up CUPS with the driver only on the server, or
> does the client also always need that driver?
>
> I'm guessing that the client also needs it, but I would be very glad to
> be wrong. :)
>

CUPS NORMALLY automatically converts jobs into a PostScript compatible
print file, though the driver may force some different behavior... SO you
may not need the driver on your clients at all. As long as the versions of
CUPS on the clients are compatible with the version of CUPS on the "print
server" (the computer connected to the printer), the print jobs should
"automagically" do the right thing.

I HAVE struggled with heterogeneous setups, however -- for example when the
client is running a Mac OS X version of CUPS and the print server is
running Ubuntu. MOST of the time it will work, but there are weird corner
cases, and you may have to force a particular driver on the client. But you
almost never need a special binary driver on the client because CUPS does
all sorts of conversions on it own.

My general suggestion is to give it a try, and be aware that the client
setup MIGHT not set up things optimally, but you can often make adjustments
in the setup that makes it work more reliably.
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