Thursday, June 19, 2008

Hidden Feature of OS X Printing: CUPS


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A little-known secret service of OS X (and many Linux distros, as well) is CUPS, a printer management system. It is more powerful than the built-in GUI, but the GUI interfaces with the same daemon (also part of CUPS). The networking functionality and settings are really neat. Its really configurable, too, with a config file similar to Apache’s. It's also an excellent tool for fixing printer weird problems. If your having trouble seeing shared printers hosted by Mac's running older versions of OS X then click here

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