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« on: December 06, 2017, 03:49:55 pm »
I don't know if the original poster has problems with Manage Printers or with Cups, but on both of these, defects cause them to crash rather than configure my printer. Both products work just fine with my printer on eComStation.
I reported the Manage Printers bug, and various defects were fixed on both the front end in Manage Printers and on the back end in Cups. I don't think any of these fixes have been released at this point.
With the fixes, I can print LPR, but Cups still crashes. Printing is so intricate under the covers that I have not had time to file a bug report. What is a little scary is that the close examination of my Cups support shows that support for my printer is kind of broken, even on Macintosh. Sure enough, there are problems there, too. Oddly, IOS seems to get the printer right every time.
People want printing to be simple, but expressing the printer capabilities in a PPD offers plenty of room for errors. I don't know how to find errors in the PPD, nor do I have any idea how to report an error in Cups. Even if I did, what are the chances of getting a bug fix during the printer's lifetime? What I'd really like is some interactive program to query the printer and construct/test the PPD.
We are definitely ready for a replacement for Cups.
I appreciate that many printers do work on ArcaOS. I'm hoping that for the 5.02 release, my printer (HP M252dw) will be supported for LPR.